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Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:11:39 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Jesse Barnes wrote:
> If we measure quality using bug metrics, things are pretty hard.

One problem with any metric is that the metric becomes a driving factor 
in itself.  Consider the whole whitespace issue, for example.

As far as the whitespace issue is concerned, we may want to consider 
just setting a flag day -- probably immediately before an -rc1 release 
-- and just run "cleanfile" on the whole tree.  In-flux patches are 
still appliable with "patch -l", and by now we should have enough tools 
to avoid adding new whitespace problems, so we can just kill this issue 
once and for all.

	-hpa
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