Bug-free software (Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!)

Stephen Clark Stephen.Clark at seclark.us
Sun Sep 10 17:25:30 PDT 2006


Volker wrote:

>On 2006-09-11 01:33, 'Anubhav A.' wrote:
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>>in message <45049112.3 at vwsoft.com>, wrote Volker thusly...
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>>>we're talking about software. Have you ever seen a piece of software which has
>>>been really bug-free? Not the hello-world, I'm talking
>>>      
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>>Recently i read about which is more than "hello-world" ...
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>>  They Write the Right Stuff
>>  http://www.fastcompany.com/online/06/writestuff.html
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>>... but you did ask.
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>>  - Parv
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>Interesting article but I really do not believe even the shuttle
>software is 100% bug free. Just because there has been only one bug
>found in the last version, does not mean it's really guaranteed to
>be bug free. It's just: No one experienced one and no one discovered
>one more. On the other side they do not implement much new features
>every day and they do not have to care about hardware and market
>changes every other day.
>
>I suspect a lot of trouble even for NASA's mission does come from
>software bugs and who knows how many lifes can be accounted for
>software bugs. Remembering the first launch of a Ariane-5 rocket? It
>has been self destroyed because of nothing but a software bug. Or
>what about the first NAVY combat ship w/ steering controlled by
>Windows NT? Out of control by a blue screen...
>
>A developer can't always foresee the environment where his code will
>later work in and that is even causing trouble.
>
>And again, errors and mistakes are human. And those who shout out
>"why didn't you test enough" should ask themself, how much have THEY
>contributed to the community? The hackers are contributing enough
>(my view) and are really doing a good job.
>
>I do not care about HOW MANY bugs a beta quality piece of software
>does contain but what IMHO matters is the timeframe to FIX them and
>the FreeBSD project and other OS communities are good in that.
>
>Greetings,
>
>Volker
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Sorry to be dense but what does MFCing mean. I have googled for it but 
can find
nothing that explains it.

Thanks,
Steve

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