Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:44:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Subject: Re: LOC per committer? Message-ID: <20040121194427.GA53182@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <p06020487bc3484e8a5a5@[128.113.24.47]> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040121092953.0435a3d8@imap.sfu.ca> <p06020487bc3484e8a5a5@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:37:18PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:41 AM +0000 1/21/04, 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. > > I don't like LOC measurements. It's a measurement which can be > seriously misleading. There are so many ways it can be wrong (IMO), > that I'd hate to have it posted. My idea exactly. Where does it say that lines of code equate to contribution to the Project? E.g. I think we can agree that folks like admins@, donations@, www@ etc do very useful work which does not equate to lines of code. I feel this is an utterly useless discussion. Followups to -chat. W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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