Re: A very interesting article. Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines) | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

2013-05-14 Thread janI
On 14 May 2013 08:36, Ulrich Stärk u...@apache.org wrote: ack. That's what I meant. Uli I agree the conclusion is more journalism than actual value. It could be fun, however to get our total code base tested like that. Seen in that perspective ASF is one big family of projects, so it would

Re: A very interesting article. Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines) | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

2013-05-14 Thread Ulrich Stärk
Much more interesting is the statistical analysis in the comments (which is missing from the main article) that concludes: these numbers are bullshit. Uli On 13.05.2013 21:24, janI wrote: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/coverity-report/

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2013-05-14 Thread Ted Dunning
I would weaken that statement a little bit. The numbers are fine. The *conclusions* are bullshit. As an example, there were 13 systems total over a million lines of code. Yet the authors drew grand conclusions. The number 13 isn't bullshit. It just isn't large enough to draw really strong

A very interesting article. Open Source Is Better Than the Closed Stuff (Until You Hit 1 Million Lines) | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

2013-05-13 Thread janI
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/coverity-report/

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2013-05-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:24 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/05/coverity-report/ I'm not really confident that the numbers are bias-free. For example, when you look at open source projects, of any size, you are looking at a mix of projects that are