On 07/11/2012 09:30 AM, Yaar Schnitman wrote:
[(dev time of maintaining comments) + (risk of outdated comments causing
bugs X dev time of fixing resulting bugs)] << (dev time gained by more
contributors each being more knowledgable)
No?
Perhaps:
[(dev time of maintaining comments)
+ (risk of outdated comments causing bugs * dev time of fixing
resulting bugs)]
<<
[(dev time gained by more contributors each being more knowledgable)
+ (reduced time from contributors trying to figure out the code)
+ (risk of misunderstandings causing bugs that could be avoided by
better comments
* dev time of fixing resulting bugs)]
(Though perhaps the 2 clauses I added could be viewed as variants
by the original one.)
On 07/11/2012 09:51 AM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at
9:30 AM, Yaar Schnitman <y...@chromium.org
How did you reach such a conclusion? Do you have any data points to
support that?
It seems plausible. I doubt we have any data points to support the
opposite conclusion. Given that, I would suggest it is better for an
open-source project to err on the side of more public information
(i.e. openness) rather than less.
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--Per Bothner
per.both...@oracle.com p...@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/
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