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What are the bus factors of Codidact?

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The purpose of this post is to draw attention to possibly low bus factors and to maybe lead to a more failsafe organization structure by just asking for information.

What are the bus factors for the various parts of Codidact?

The bus factor quantifies how much the operation of an organization is at risk because information and capabilities aren't shared, for example the number of key members that cannot be replaced easily. A large bus factor is generally desired.

Software: QPixel is publicly available so that sounds good but for the Codidact flavor of QPixel additional parts must be assembled to create the software this network runs on. How many persons know how to do that? Is it written down anywhere?

Content: The information stored in this network is contained in a single SQL database. At how many different locations is a recent backup of the database stored? Are there also older versions available? How many people can access them?

Hardware: How many people can access the server?

Domains: Are the relevant domains (codidact.com/org) already controlled by the foundation? How many people know how to administer these domains?

Payment: The bank account has already been set up, I heard. Is it used to pay for the hardware and traffic? And again, how many people have access to it?

I think it's worthwhile to think about that and to try to keep these bus factors as high as possible, especially because with volunteers there is probably a lot of fluctuation.

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What's a "bus factor"?
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote about 2 years ago

What's a "bus factor"?

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote about 2 years ago · edited about 2 years ago

Please put that in your question. We shouldn't have to follow links to get pertinent information to the question.

Trilarion‭ wrote about 2 years ago

I copied a bit from the definition of the Wikipedia page. If you want, you can have a look if that would be sufficient information for you.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote about 2 years ago

At least that's something, so I undid the -1. I still don't get what this has to do with busses, though.

Trilarion‭ wrote about 2 years ago

It's a fixed phrase. The literal meaning is if something bad happens to someone (like been run over by a bus) what is the maximal number of people that this can happen to so that even in the worst case the organization still functions, i.e. onto how many shoulders is important knowledge distributed. For the concept, it's not really important if it's a bus or a truck or thunder and lightning or if you win the lottery and simply quit. The phrase can easily be googled to get further information. Sometimes it can be expected to follow links and get additional information from external resources.