When code is irrevocable, the team sizes and/or time to handle the code should go way up. I suspect most of us have internalized a gut feel for estimates along

When code is irrevocable, the team sizes and/or time to handle the code should go way up. I suspect most of us have internalized a gut feel for estimates along the lines of the Linux kernel process or other equivalent commercial low-reliability software process, when with long lived legislation, we should take more cues along the lines of the Space Shuttle code development process (or perhaps I should liken it more towards approving and implementing a new crypto algorithm...) as more reasonable approaches.