IT Manager’s Journal: How to “Bus-Proof” Your Open Source Project

“People often talk about a software project’s bus factor–the
number of people on your project that need to get hit by a bus to
leave you with no one familiar with your codebase. In the open
source world, the disappearance of even one developer can herald
the death of your project–if you don’t prepare in advance.

” The most important thing you can do to bus-proof your project
is to attract a strong developer community for it. Since open
source developers usually first get involved in a project as users,
you need to attract users for your project. This means that you
need to create something that people want to use and then listen
carefully to the user feedback. Today’s user may turn out to be
tomorrow’s release manager…”

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