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Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

The longer form is:

“Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.”

This is Linus’s law, and was named in honour of Linus Torvalds.

I’ve seen examples of this at work, but also tricky bugs that took entire teams weeks. What has been your experience?

- Karl

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