Real examples that show that being Open helps to improve quality
As all design files are available for Open Designs, it easy for users, producers and other interested people to study the designs and find and signal problems. The following table shows that this in practice also happens.
Project | Date | Bug signaled by | Bug type | Bug description |
SPEC | Early User | 3 | Mechanical problem SFP | |
SPEC | Producer | 1 | Design problem: supply voltage too low | |
FmcAdc100M14b4cha | 03-09-2013 | Producer | 1 | Production Test program, non-functional bug |
White Rabbit Switch | Early User | 2, 3 | Many different bugs | |
White Rabbit Switch | 09-2013 | Early User | 2 | Setting of nsec part of TAI time |
It seems that there are different types of bug reports
- errors that could only be found by studying the designs (so OH made this happen)
- errors that could be found by any user, and the user could find a solution because all design information is available.
- errors that could be found by any user, and were just reported to
the developers.
- because the design was Open, there were more users that could make this happen.
4 September 2013