[Dovecot] Bus factor of dovecot / GIT

Thomas Koch thomas at koch.ro
Wed Nov 9 11:29:37 EET 2011


Hi,

somebody from the kolab groupware project recently explained me that the Bus-
Factor[1] of around 1 would be one of their primary reasons not to use Dovecot 
and stick with Cyrus.

What do you think about that? Is the bus factor much higher then 1?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor

Somehow related: Since the free software world[2] slowly converges towards GIT 
as the "one and only" VCS, have you thought about a switch? It's much more 
likely that somebody checks out your code, looks into it and provides patches 
if the VCS is already installed.

[2] Android, Debian, Drupal, Eclipse, Fedora, Gnome, KDE, Linux Kernel, Perl, 
PHP (ongoing), PostgreSQL, Qt, Ruby on Rails, X.org (freedesktop.org)

Best regards,

Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro



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