On 2008-March-20 , at 11:34 , Joel Holdsworth wrote:
So inkscape has 45 developers, 793034 lines of code, which would have cost an estimated 220 person years to produce at cost $12,112,544. Cool huh?
I don't know how they design their metrics but, for my "contribution", it seems to be overestimated by a a factor of at least 10, which makes them not really credible. Bulia for example (the absolute commit champion), while he works on Inkscape as a side project of his "real- life" work if I am not mistaken, would have produced a 53 person- months work in... a bit less that 53 months! So either Bulia is supremely intelligent (which I don't doubt a second but to this point it would be an insult to the rest of the human race) or they have a strange way of quantifying things.
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/