Am 22.07.2010 um 18:18 schrieb Stefan Weil:
Am 21.07.2010 22:05, schrieb Joel Schopp:
I have decided to apply the broken window theory of crime
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory to code, and
more specifically to qemu[:]
I'm hoping that fixing seemingly trivial
bugs will actually fix some more serious bugs, make the code run
just a bit smoother, or at the very least leave us with easier to
maintain code.
Joel Schopp (3):
remove dead code from hw/loader.c
fix variable type in qemu-io.c
remove pointless if from vl.c
[...]
How did you apply the broken window theory of crime to software code?
Is this still a secret, or can you tell us more?
If you consider Coding Style and Best Practice violations a crime
(vandalism / broken window), then e.g. removing dead code is to
prevent future code dead-on-arrival and - as criminal escalation - bugs.
Applying it further might mean that someone could provide a patch
either adding or removing braces for all single line statements in the
code base so that the broken window argument (someone broke the rule
so I can, too) no longer holds for new patches arriving. :)
Regards,
Andreas
