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

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

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