Hi Guilherme, I am not a Clojure developer (I only use it), so maybe I'm speaking out of line. I would first like to thank you for the initiative; as an industry, I believe we direly need more quantitative, scientific studies of our practices, so I'm really happy to see this.
There is of course a lot of social dynamics that cannot be captured from code commits alone. For example, if Rich was to step down (for whatever reason), I would be much more worried about the direction of the project than about the technical skills required to understand and grow the code base: to my somewhat external eyes, Rich's role of refusing contributions and setting a clear direction for the language is at least as important as any code he writes himself. I love Clojure because it's clear, from usage, that there is a single, strong, unified vision behind it. I'm not saying nobody shares Rich's aesthetics, but at the very least it would take time for any replacement to earn the social authority that Rich has (it is, after all, his language). As for the truck factor computation, have you considered weighing the relative importance of different files in a project? Something like the inverse of churn, or taking into account the last modification date? If a file has not been touched in two years, does it really matter who wrote it? Even the author will probably need to read it very carefully should there ever be a need to change it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
