Hi Mivian, First of all, sorry for such a late reply.
Thanks for the question, it made us add maintainers for Scrapy's package on PyPI! We realized that not all channels have the same admins (GitHub vs. PyPI vs. ReadTheDocs vs. IRC vs. mailing-list) To answer your questions: *1) According to your experience, what number best represents the truck factor of scrapy?* I would say that it's currently 5 or 6. *2) Who are the developers responsible for this truck factor (i.e., the name of the developers who are responsible for the TF result answered in the previous question)?* First the founding team, they are still around though much less involved in the development nowadays, yet they know the project very well: - Pablo Hoffman (https://github.com/pablohoffman) - Shane Evans (https://github.com/shaneaevans) The core maintainers, they contributed a ton and still contribute a lot, even if simply reviewing sometimes, they have in-depth knowledge of many parts of the framework: - Daniel Grana (https://github.com/dangra) - Mikhail Korobov (https://github.com/kmike) Other notable contributors, recently more active, helping users with documentation, support and bug fixing: - Elias Dorneles (https://github.com/eliasdorneles) - Paul Tremberth -- myself (https://github.com/redapple) Obviously, scrapy receives a lot more contributions than from the people listed above, and some do commit serious improvements to the framework. I narrowed the list to the people with knowledge, contributions and admin rights. Hope this helps with your study. Best, Paul. On Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 7:04:06 PM UTC+2, Mívian Ferreira wrote: > > Dear *Scrapy *contributors, > > I am Master's student investigating the importance of the idea of truck > factors in Software Engineering. > > As you know, truck factor <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor> (aka > bus factor) is defined as “the number of people on your team who have to be > hit by a truck before the project is in serious trouble”. By "serious > trouble", we mean that it will very difficult to maintain the project > (e.g., bugs will take more time to be fixed, new features will be delayed > etc). > > I would appreciate your contribution by answering two questions: > > 1) According to your experience, what number best represents the truck > factor of *scrapy*? > > 2) Who are the developers responsible for this truck factor (i.e., the > name of the developers who are responsible for the TF result answered in > the previous question)? > > Mívian Ferreira > Master's 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 "scrapy-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
