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OSS Bus Factor Monitor

Alert project leads when code knowledge becomes dangerously concentrated in one contributor

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The Problem

Open source projects and companies using OSS internally have no monitoring for bus factor concentration, discovering dangerous single-maintainer knowledge risk only when that person becomes unavailable

Why It Works

“Recurring complaint pattern in engineering risk discussions about invisible bus factor concentration with no dedicated monitoring tool for open source or internal repos”

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