Bus Factor

The Bus Factor is the number of people that could be run over by a bus before a software project would have code nobody is familiar with (or for the project to be neutralized).

Linux has a bus factor of 1.

by busfactor September 1, 2007

Bus Factor

A measure of employee value and commitment relating to the amount / cost of work that would suffer as a result of person X being run over by a bus.

"Crikey was that Willy's idea as well? I dunno what we'd do without him"
"Yeah, he has a really high bus factor"

by lardarz September 2, 2009

busfactor

How many people have to be ridden over by a bus before indispensable knowledge is lost.

Sjors and Tim cannot travel together, think about the busfactor!

by MakerTim December 2, 2024

bumfactor

*Usually a negative term meaning to be an idiot or pertaining to acting stupid in a seriouse situation. *Sometimes pertaining to someone who has royally screwed up a very simple task.
*Temporary mental handicap or mental relapse.
*A disease that is uncurable and causes mental defects and sexual confusion.
*A race not of this world. Usually including those who do not like Seinfeld or anything else that is very funny.
*Someone who is extremely ignorant and geeky, those beyond the scope of most human social outcasts. Not liked by anyone usually a slob and doesn't concur with social norms.
(refering to those in opposition of the Tory's.)

What a f#@!in bumfactor. I hope he dies.
The bumfactors should rot in hell for there idiocraty.
What a gay ass bumfactor.
That bumfactor just cut me off.

by Cusher Van Buren December 1, 2004