gEDA-dev: gEDA Project's Bus Number

[Peter TB Brett]

On Monday 28 January 2008 04:15:00 Ales Hvezda wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As Peter Brett rightfully pointed out in IRC late last year, the gEDA's
> Project's "Bus Number" is quite low.  What is a "Bus Number", well as
> PeterB defined it:
>
> 	Number of people who need to be hit by a bus before the project
> 	has major difficulties
>
> Here are some interesting pages on this topic:
>
> http://blog.visionpace.com/2006/05/whats_your_bus_.html
> http://www.jaredrichardson.net/blog/2005/08/02/
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BusNumber   (btw, the c2 wiki is fun to read
> sometimes) http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TruckNumber
>
> Anyways, I'm open to suggestions on how to increase the "Bus Number" or
> at least reduce the risk of having such a low number.  Ideas?
>

(1) Add at least one project administrator for the SF project.

(2) What other project resources require Ales (and only Ales) to be 
updated/modified?

(3) Which code is understood/maintained by only one person?  I think we're 
doing pretty well for gaf -- off the top of my head, the only bits that I 
really don't understand are the undo mechanism and the netlisting system.

By using git, we're actually pretty safe from server destruction -- everybody 
has a full copy of the VCS history, and thus everything they need to continue 
development & distribution.  But it would be nice, if Ales got hit by a 
proverbial bus, to be able to continue (almost) seemlessly.

Just my £0.02 worth.

                                  Peter


-- 
Peter Brett

Electronic Systems Engineer
Integral Informatics Ltd
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