Re: Hooks

----- "Brandon Van Every" <[email protected]> a écrit :
> Actually a fair number of my biases come from looking at too much
> useless open source garbage.  Such projects do tend to persist for
> years, but many haven't had as many man hours put into them as a
> commercial project would have.  I definitely don't believe in
> maintaining millions of lines of code unless someone's paying you a
> lot of cash to do it, and even then, only if you can stand to do it.
> Doing it as a volunteer completely sucks, which is why most open
> source projects have poor test coverage.

Many successful open source projects are either funded or maintained by software companies or NPO. Oracle/sun => Java, Novell => Mono, the Mozilla Foundation => Firefox, and so on. If you give a look to the emails of the maintainers, you'll see big company names more often than not. Thse companies often dedicate ressources to work full time on these projects. As a consequence, a lot of high profile open source softwares get as much attention as a lot of other software projects. Test coverage in particular is often a field which is addressed very early in the open source development cycle (see the regression tests of gcc, or those for PostgreSQL). When test coverage is not considered as a priority, you can also count on the community to find bugs for you.  

And I definitely believe in maintaining large code base on a volunteer basis. When you are a student, of course :)

> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
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