[The following post is the result of a collaboration with Neil Bowers]
CPAN Bus Factor Perhaps you’ve noticed a new metric when browsing MetaCPAN?
What is “bus factor”? Wikipedia defines “bus factor” as
a measurement of the risk resulting from information and capabilities not being shared among team members, derived from the phrase “in case they get hit by a bus.”
For CPAN our definition is “a measurement of how risky it might be to start relying on a CPAN module, which might not be actively maintained”. Read More...