On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 02:05:13AM -0800, SJS wrote:
3.6 million lines of code without much to show for it is a pretty good example of wheel-spinning; it would be better if those 3.6 million lines of code fixed 300,000 bugs, say.
I'm not sure what to say. Have you read any of the kernel changelogs? These aren't 3.6 million lines of whitespace changes. Just because they haven't checked bugs off in a bug-tracker doesn't mean they don't fix them. I find this amusing, since I have attended several sessions where the linux kernel development model was used as an example of how distributed development can work well. It's not to say that a bug tracking system couldn't help, but there aren't any that fit the kernel development model. Trying to force it into a very different model wouldn't solve any problems, it would just make things worse, probably much worse. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
