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3.2. Measurement of quality of code

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Gabriel
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Garrett
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Chris
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Conventional measurements (LOCs, function points and so on) are not interesting. Open source software is partly about a kind of natural selection of code. Bad code causes crashes, which annoys people, hopefully including some developer that will fix it. You also have subjective measurement of code quality by the contributing developers: if your code is poor quality, people will not contribute to it. Having everything done in the open imposes a self-enforced level of code quality that is higher than what would have been done in private (or in a closed source project).
Phil
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Mark
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Alvin
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Noah
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Joseph
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Neil
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John
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