Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
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Re: Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
#2Would this mean that open source communities would work better for modular systems, since each independent module has a relatively small codebase? Unix & NPM come to mind.
Re: Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
#3Static analysis alone seems like a truly poor way of judging "defects" in any non-trivial system.
Re: Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
#4Static analysis alone seems like a truly poor way of judging "defects" in any non-trivial system.
Sounds like a good enough heuristic to me.
Doesn't have to be perfect, just indicative.
Re: Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
#5Static analysis alone seems like a truly poor way of judging "defects" in any non-trivial system.
Not to mention, you could just tune your code base to get good marks on the scanner and get govt contracts.
Re: Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
#6It sounds like they are finding numbers to support the specific application of the bazaar and cathedral models for projects.
I don't completely agree with the methods (static analysis), or the sample size (368 projects), they used, but they were consistant when measuring. (Which is better than most project quality metrics)
Re: Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines)
#7I seriously wonder about sample size and representativeness. What projects are they looking at in either group?