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boosting excerpt from https://twitter.com/luis_in_brief/status/1161615769764950017 thread

Luis Villa:
The term ‘bus factor’ has bothered me since we started Tidelift
—because buses are (basically) never the cause of bad project health! So I wrote about it—and my slightly tongue-in-cheek suggested replacement, boss factor.

https://blog.tidelift.com/bus-factor-boss-factor-and-the-economics-of-disappearing-maintainers