Yes, thank you for correcting my error - I should have said the mode rather than the median.
Right, but the "hero" as discussed by most folks is only a problem if the team expects hiring more software engineers should speed up execution, even sub-linearly. With a "hero" this is extremely difficult to manage.
I see this as an interesting problem in software development, and there are many more interesting discussions about this.
However - this paper presents a pile of open source repositories (not even necessarily projects/products) that accepted commits/patches from others. Open source must operate differently as all contributions are voluntary. If someone wants to be a hero, great, move the project forward. Thus all of these BDFLs, as the projects can't even imagine themselves without their initial hero. Projects that don't look like this tend to have paid developers (rust, go, fuschia, chromium, firefox) as opposed to the projects with heroes.
This paper starts with "I found a data set, lemme try to fit it to my question" rather than "is this data set relevant for my question?"
Right, but the "hero" as discussed by most folks is only a problem if the team expects hiring more software engineers should speed up execution, even sub-linearly. With a "hero" this is extremely difficult to manage.
I see this as an interesting problem in software development, and there are many more interesting discussions about this.
However - this paper presents a pile of open source repositories (not even necessarily projects/products) that accepted commits/patches from others. Open source must operate differently as all contributions are voluntary. If someone wants to be a hero, great, move the project forward. Thus all of these BDFLs, as the projects can't even imagine themselves without their initial hero. Projects that don't look like this tend to have paid developers (rust, go, fuschia, chromium, firefox) as opposed to the projects with heroes.
This paper starts with "I found a data set, lemme try to fit it to my question" rather than "is this data set relevant for my question?"