From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261504AbVACRH2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:07:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261505AbVACRH1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:07:27 -0500 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:28118 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261504AbVACRHL (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2005 12:07:11 -0500 Message-ID: <41D97DAC.1010402@drdos.com> Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:15:24 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: William Lee Irwin III , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , William Lee Irwin III , Andries Brouwer , Maciej Soltysiak , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: starting with 2.7 References: <20050102221534.GG4183@stusta.de> <41D87A64.1070207@tmr.com> <20050103003011.GP29332@holomorphy.com> <1104766594.12807.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1104766594.12807.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: >It isn't a good assumption that rate of change drives rate of errors and >need for testing. It is one factor but the amount of review, the >modularity of the code and the effectiveness of the management and >verification tools are all involved greatly. > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > Rate of change X 3 = Rate of testing. Seems to apply in commerical software development, provided the testing engineers are brighter than the developers (which in most cases they need to be). :-) Jeff