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High ProfileHigh ProfilePosted Nov 18, 2004 3:42 UTC (Thu) by jtc (subscriber, #6246)In reply to: High Profile by madscientist Parent article: freedesktop.org site compromised
"The reality is there are always jerks out there and little you can do about it. Similarly, there are always bugs and not much you can do about that."
I disagree with the second sentence. While it's usually not possible to produce a system with no bugs, there are a lot of actions that can be taken to develop a system with fewer bugs (often much fewer) than would otherwise occur. Most or all of these actions fall under the category of good software engineering procedures, practices, and techniques. It's not always practical to follow such procedures completely, but I suspect that the ROI for many OSS projects would be significantly higher - less money spent on bug fixing and related maintenance and less money lost to security problems - if a solid subset of these procedures were put in place.
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