[consulting] Is this list dead?

Darrel O'Pry dopry at thing.net
Tue Mar 20 16:23:22 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 12:10 -0400, Morbus Iff wrote:
> > And in any case, what is naive is thinking that
>  > quality is superior with the proprietary model.
> 
> I'm not sure I implied that - I will heartily agree "more eyes" improves 
> code but, in my /concrete/ case, the amount (it is a biIIg project with 
>   nearly 100 pages of design docs behind it; very few folks read 
> end-user documentation, much less technical documentation) and quality 
> of eyes would be a detractor not a help (the subject matter is one 
> everyone has dabbled in, and armchair ideas abound)... especially this 
> early in the project, where the foundation is still being worked on.
> 
> With that said, I tend to think my quality of code is, in fact, superior 
> to most. Portions of the community seem to agree with this statement, 
> wishing they could "automate" my code review process against contrib.

/me begins secretly designing the morbus code review bot. A small pile
of gears, wears, and esoteric electronics clutter the workbench.



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