All that is worrisome, but it's the last one that I find the most troubling. Companies are clearly indulging in magical thinking if they believe that OSS is free of security problems. It's that kind ofblind-belief in OSS that led to the OpenSSL Heartbleed security fiasco. Yes, it's...
Nothing suspicious or worrisome that the largest corporations built on proprietary software are meeting behind closed doors to discuss open software. I agree. We need transcription notes for this meeting. Reactions: Tim Apple’s Glasses, huge_apple_fangirl, DaPizzaMan and...
Another issue this brings up is the amount of testing, or the lack thereof, that goes into protocol changes. It is worrisome that protocol changes get merged without accompanying extensive test coverage. This is why the Conformal team puts such a strong emphasis on complete test coverage to hel...
One worrisome piece of data is in the time to close pull requests. The mean is short, but the median is too short. That could either mean a very well-streamlined code review in a tightly coupled team or very little code review. Data source:Corona-Warn-App dashboard(Manrique Lopez,CC BY...