[MlMt] Google login issues?

Paul Sture mailmt at techchat.ch
Sun Sep 4 10:21:45 EDT 2016


On 4 Sep 2016, at 11:55, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 3 Sep 2016, at 12:24, Gary Hull wrote:
>
>> Customers may be in for a surprise if the proprietor kicks the 
>> bucket. MailMate itself has a bus factor = 1, but hey, we love it. 
>> Runbox and Fastmail appear to have a bus factor = 3 or so. Gmail has 
>> a bus factor = 100,000, which is also its aggravation factor.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor
>
> I didn't know this expression, but I'm also not sure I like to think 
> about the likelihood of being hit by a bus ;-)

The basic question "What happens if <key project member> gets hit by a 
bus" was around in the UK at least as far back as the 1970s, but the 
idea of a numeric factor is new to me.



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