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		cookiecaper on March 4, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Critical crypto bug leaves Linux, hundreds of app... Raymond's quip may be somewhat hyperbolic for effect, but I think it's harder to argue with the assertion that "with many eyes, many bugs are shallow". True, there are some things that are esoteric and which only a few very specially trained persons would notice, but in many cases, it's not that way. The fact that a random person will show up on the mailing lists of open-source projects, even minor ones, and have a bugfix patch validates the theory that an open codebase contributes significantly to software quality, and particularly a greater degree of software buglessness. I think that people who argue over Raymond's quip are just being pedants. It's true that not all bugs will be shallow, no matter how many eyes are on software, but I don't think the expression was meant to be taken literally.

guscost on March 5, 2014 [–]

  great_success = sum([i.debug_skill * log(i.audit_time) for i in code_reviewers])

SimHacker on March 6, 2014 | [–]

And you can't just go:

    struct code_reviewer *qualified_code_reviewer =
        (struct code_reviewer *)malloc(
            sizeof(struct code_reviewer));
    assert(qualified_code_reviewer != NULL);

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