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It brings to mind the morbid “bus factor” — what happens to a project if a sole maintainer gets hit by a bus?
Open Source Needs Maintainers. But How Can They Get Paid? Heather Joslyn 2023
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If almost every meaningful commit, release, and issue reply comes from one person, you have maintainer concentration risk (the "bus factor" - the number of people who would need to be hit by a bus before the project is in trouble).
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