[ekiwi]

> It used to be you could email a patch to someone and that patch would get reviewed and committed.

Yes, but 1990 is also when this study came out: https://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/par-distr-sys/technical_papers/fuzz....

They find that a lot of UNIX tools could be easily crashed by generating random inputs. The quality of our most popular open source software has dramatically improved over the last 30 years.

[pjmlp]

Check the updated version of that paper, it hardly changed in 30 years.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/348025458_The_Relev...