Hi All,
I don't know if any of you have played around with ohloh.net at all - I have; it's kinda cool. Anyway, for those that don't know, it indexes source control repositories of open source projects, so as to produce interesting metrics of the total work done on whole projects, and the contributions made by individual developers.
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?
Ohloh has a cool feature where you can put a little badge on the project home page that tells people this info: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/69/widgets
Some projects have used this just for the hell of it, others have used it as a way of encouraging people to donate e.g. wine-door.org! What do you think?
All the best Joel
On 2008-March-20 , at 11:34 , Joel Holdsworth wrote:
I don't know if any of you have played around with ohloh.net at all
- I
have; it's kinda cool. Anyway, for those that don't know, it indexes source control repositories of open source projects, so as to produce interesting metrics of the total work done on whole projects, and the contributions made by individual developers.
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?
Ohloh has a cool feature where you can put a little badge on the project home page that tells people this info: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/69/widgets
Some projects have used this just for the hell of it, others have used it as a way of encouraging people to donate e.g. wine-door.org! What do you think?
I think I want a piece of the $12,112,544 !
;-)
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/
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/
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
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