"Many eyes" [LWN.net]

"Many eyes"

Posted Oct 10, 2013 21:42 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266)
Parent article: Two LSS talks

He is one of these "many eyes", and he is finding bugs.

The theory seems to be working here.

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"Many eyes"

Posted Oct 11, 2013 1:39 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

I think it's more referencing the fact that there *are* lots of eyeballs on the code and there are *still* plenty of problems. That he can go in and find problems left and right isn't good even if he is fixing them; there's only so much time in a day.

"Many eyes"

Posted Oct 11, 2013 9:26 UTC (Fri) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

Hey mathstuf, live up to your name and look at the "enough" part of the proposition (shall we call it theorem, conjecture?).

"Many eyes"

Posted Oct 11, 2013 10:03 UTC (Fri) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link]

> Hey mathstuf, live up to your name and look at the "enough" part of the proposition (shall we call it theorem, conjecture?).

The mathematical "enough" is a very, very abstract thing. "For a sufficiently large N" works for math, but it does not work for the real world.

"Given enough effort we can solve world hunger, ensure world peace and prosperity for all".

So, yeah, that doesn't prove anything, methinks.

"Many eyes"

Posted Oct 13, 2013 22:37 UTC (Sun) by jackb (guest, #41909) [Link]

We don't know how many of the eyes are paid not to report and fix those problems.

Actually we don't even know how many of the anti-patterns are accidental and how many are deliberate.

I wonder if the automated tools mentioned in the article could be hooked up to "git blame" and used to deduce possible patterns in the sources of vulnerabilities.