Re: "Truck Factor" of wxPython?

> On Jul 19, 2015, at 12:45 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Dear Dev's,
> 
> did you recognized this study?
> <https://peerj.com/preprints/1233v1.pdf>
> 
> Here is a german articel about the study
> <http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Studie-Wichtige-GitHub-Projekte-von-einzelnen-Entwicklern-abhaengig-2752849.html>
> 
> They analysed the "Truck Factor" of some GitHub projects.
> This means how many developers need to be wounded or killed by a Truck
> (alternativly a "Bus") to stop the project.
> 
> WxPython isn't in that list because it isn't one of the most popular
> GitHub projects.
> 
> But I described the problem in the past. This project is to important
> but depends on to less developer's.
> 
> So the question should be what need to happen to this project to bring
> more active and (in emergency situations) maintaining developers to it?

Pretty much the same thing that needs to happen for any open source project without a steady source of funding. Find a way to get people so passionate about the project that they're willing to spend copious amounts of their free time working on it with no compensation aside from the occasional thank you. If they have a day job, it basically means they'll be devoting their nights and weekends to the project, leaving them very little time to relax or deal with their other responsibilities. For these reasons, often the ideal group of contributors for open source projects is high school / college kids, who have more time, tend to have less responsibilities like families to take care of, and can use the project as a learning experience. This group tends to be drawn towards projects that seem cutting edge or super cool, though, as they want to build something modern and 'fresh', meaning mature projects needing "boring" maintenance and improvements tend not to attract them too much.

I think this pretty much explains why most open source projects have a Truck Factor of 1 or 2. :(

Regards,

Kevin

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