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.
...or he's committing people's patches. There are other things which are good though. I like having a robotic pat-on-the-back; "Well done". It sorta gives me an incentive to work hard. I want to get to kudo-rank 8!
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 12:05 +0100, jiho wrote:
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