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Linux Is the Largest Software Development Project On the Planet: Greg K-H (cio.com)
sfcrazy writes: Greg Kroah-Hartmant, the Linux superstar, delivered a keynote at CoreOS Fest where he gave some impressive details on how massive is the Linux project. Kroah-Hartman said the latest release (4.5) made two months ago contains over 21 million lines of code. More impressive than the amount of code, and what truly makes Linux the world's largest software project is the fact that last year around 4,000 developers and at least 440 different companies that contributed to the kernel. Kroah-Hartman said, "It's the largest software development project ever, in the history of computing -- by the number of people using it, developing it, and now using it, and the number of companies involved. It's a huge number of people."
which has very minimal, I can even say non-existing, QA/QC and no unit tests at all.
Not so greatest then, considering the number of regressions in each kernel release.
Not so greatest then, considering that people get tired of adjusting their code to new APIs which inevitably leads to even more regressions.
Not so greatest then, considering that bug reports in bugzilla.kernel.org often receive zero attention and LKML posts are lost in the noise of hundreds of patches published every day.
You know, Greg, you don't sound convincing. You sound like a marketer of some dietary supplement.
I know this comment will be modded to hell by rabid Linux fanboys, but I'm just tired of this BS remarks made by open source advocates. The truth of course is a lot less exciting.