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Knowledge concentration (bus factor)

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How it's worked out

  • At risk if one or no active contributor, or one author makes 80% or more of commits
  • Last 90 days of commits
NotePair, rotate and document these first. A component with one contributor is also a security and continuity risk.

Source: Truck factor research (Avelino et al., 2016)

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