[Incubator] Speak up if you think the draft "Project Graduation Checklist" has any remaining issues

[Cameron Shorter]

On 08/03/12 07:51, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> On 12-03-07 3:02 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> ok, Open section re-instated as requested. (Some minor formatting and a
>> couple of words tweaked in the process).
>>
>> I do agree that the principles of the "Open" section are good, and upon
>> re-reading, I see that we loose meaning by taking it out.
>> There is a little duplication in the doc now - but I think we can live
>> with that.
>>
>
> Thank you Cameron. And to address your question in the doc I have 
> added a ref to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor to clarify what 
> is meant by "bus number" a.k.a. "bus factor"
>
> Essentially the "bus number" of a project is the number of 
> devs/contributors who need to be hit by a bus before the project gets 
> into deep trouble. The higher this number the better for the project.
>

Daniel,
Yes, good to mention the bus factor. I've expanded on this a little, in 
order to give a bit of content:

Long term viability of the project is demonstrated by showing 
participation and direction from multiple developers, who come from 
multiple organisations.
/Eg. The project is resiliant enough to sustain loss of a developer or 
supporting organisation, often refered to as having a high bus factor 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor>; Decisions are made openly 
instead of behind closed doors, which empowers all developers to take 
ownership of the project and facilitates spreading of knowledge between 
current and future team members./

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