Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs
by scott_s on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:24AM
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Yes, the "many eyeballs" is a part of it. But I think the author's point is that they are only half. The other half is someone has to trip over the bug. That is, people aren't finding these bugs purely through reading the source code.
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Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs
by gordaco on Monday February 23, 2015 @11:17AM
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There is a huge difference between a code review and the specific search for the cause of a known, defined bug. Should we rephrase Linus' law as "given enough eyeballs, all bugs' causes are shallow"? But maybe that's what the sentence actually meant for the first person that wrote it.