Timeline for How do open source projects maintain quality?
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| Nov 27, 2010 at 18:23 | comment | added | TRiG | @Daniel, Wikis aren't necessarily editable by just anyone either. The most famous, Wikipedia, is, but even there some articles are protected. | |
| Nov 11, 2010 at 4:33 | comment | added | Berin Loritsch | @David, I agree. Having used strongly typed languages that were not statically typed, I find that world actually helps me focus on the problem at hand instead of the syntax of the language. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 19:21 | comment | added | David Thornley | @Berin: Strong typing doesn't guarantee quality either, although it helps. I do agree with you that there's been plenty of great software written without strong static typing. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 14:44 | comment | added | Yeonho | If I could set two answers as accepted answer, I'd have chosen this one as well. but the answer I chose explained the aspect of open source project that I didn't undestand before. I thought the open source projects' codes could be changed by anyone, like a wiki. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 14:44 | vote | accept | Yeonho | ||
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| Nov 10, 2010 at 14:37 | comment | added | Berin Loritsch | NOTE: static typing does not guarantee quality. Strong typing does. There are serveral languages that are strongly typed, but not statically typed. I dare say the proportion of quality projects is probably about the same between the different platforms. At the end of the day it's all about the logic, not the types. | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 13:52 | comment | added | Larry Coleman | +1 for "most don't. In both cases, open and closed source." | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 10:37 | history | edited | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 83 characters in body |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 10:31 | comment | added | Joonas Pulakka | Indeed, open source stimulates better quality than closed source. In closed source the only thing that the world sees is the external behavior of the application, and the primary motivator of programmers is their monthly salary, which doesn't depend on the code quality at all. Thus the code is often quite a mess. Been there, seen that... | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 9:55 | history | edited | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 2.5 | deleted 1022 characters in body |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 9:38 | comment | added | Martijn Verburg | This answer needs a hefty edit, I think you've copy and pasted in twice - I'd edit it but I don't want to lose the gist of your answer... | |
| Nov 10, 2010 at 9:30 | history | answered | Jörg W Mittag | CC BY-SA 2.5 |