Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 18:59:03 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@freebsd.org> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: LOC per committer? Message-ID: <27699.1074707943@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:38:09 GMT." <20040121173809.GG68003@genius.tao.org.uk>
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In message <20040121173809.GG68003@genius.tao.org.uk>, Josef Karthauser writes: > >--uTRFFR9qmiCqR05s >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:41:22AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: >> Has anyone done any graphs of lines-of-code for each committer >> over the lifetime of the project? I know that rwatson produced >> all sorts of graphs relating to the number of commits, but lines >> of code is something I haven't yet seen anywhere. >>=20 >> Colin Percival > >I did one a few years ago. It's not too hard to do. I did it by >parsing the output of 'cvs log' in a perl script. Another way of >getting the "current" count would be to parse the output of 'cvs >annotate' on each file. Considering how much harder it is to get rid of code than to add it to our repository, a metric based purely on "lines added" would be very misleading. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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