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Community QA Dynamics
Many eyes make all bugs shallow (sort of)
- true of kernel, with thousands of obsessive eyes
- true of fetchmail, with fairly small codebase
- what of the projects in the middle- large but not with kernel-level of clarity or obsessiveness? (aka GUI tools?)
thousands of bug filers
dozens of hackers
potentially, thousands of triagers and dozens of skilled QA
Notes:
Someone famous (and infamous) said that many eyes make all bugs shallow; he's been mocked for his sex advice but I think some of what he said was fundamentally correct. How far does it apply?
As an aside, Andrew had a really interesting point about lkml's many-to-many bug system v. bugzilla's (really any bts I've ever used) point-to-point- using bugzilla can change dynamics for the worse in some cases and I'm going to lose sleep over that, I think. Not sure what I can do about it, though :)