>From my outside observation you would need to hit Rich Hickey, Timothy Baldridge, David Nolen, Stuart Halloway + other cognitect staff all at once. This wouldn't exactly "kill" clojure. But may put it into maintenance only mode for a while.
On Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 4:21:40 AM UTC+12, Guilherme Avelino wrote: > > As part of my PhD research on code authorship, we calculated the Truck > Factor (TF) of some popular GitHub repositories. > > As you probably know, the Truck (or Bus) Factor designates the minimal > number of developers that have to be hit by a truck (or quit) before a > project is incapacitated. In our work, we consider that a system is in > trouble if more than 50% of its files become orphan (i.e., without a main > author). > > More details on our work in this preprint: > https://peerj.com/preprints/1233 > > We calculated the TF for *Clojure* and obtained a value of *2*. > > The developers responsible for this TF are: > > Rich Hickey - author of 58% of the files > Stuart Halloway - author of 27% of the files > > To validate our results, we would like to ask *Clojure* developers the > following three brief questions: > > (a) Do you agree that the listed developers are the main developers of > *Clojure*? > > (b) Do you agree that *Clojure* will be in trouble if the listed > developers leave the project (e.g., if they win in the lottery, to be less > morbid)? > > (c) Does *Clojure* have some characteristics that would attenuate the > loss of the listed developers (e.g., detailed documentation)? > > Thanks in advance for your collaboration, > > Guilherme Avelino > PhD Student > Applied Software Engineering Group (ASERG) > UFMG, Brazil > http://aserg.labsoft.dcc.ufmg.br/ > -- 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.
