More bugs than revisions

(Debian bug count from http://master.debian.org/~ajt)

Heard as an aside: "that project's got more bugs than revisions!"

Which made me think what kind of project might reasonably expect that statement to be true. The space shuttle software as a whole, perhaps? Lots of testing implies lots of bugs, and scrupulous code reviews means fewer commits.

At the other end of things, many small projects might get a few hundred revisions and then a few hundred bugs over time. Of course, most bugs will end up closed in one way or another.

Anybody able to point to a real project with more bugs than revisions?

Just costs you double

Me: "just" costs you double.
Them: Huh?
Me: Every time you use "just" to describe a feature or a process it tells me you've made a gross assumption about what I'll need to do ...

That comment on a post titled All I Need Is A Programmer made me nod in agreement. "Just" is a warning sign in conversations for me, like "always", "never", and the dreaded "trust me".

All those phrases make me think of exceptions. "Always? Well, there is that edge case ...". "Just? Why 'just'? What about ..." and I begin to wonder whether the person really knows what they're talking about.

Just say 'no' to 'just'. (You knew that was coming, right?)