> recent survey of > SourceForge projects confirmed it and found that the median was 1. > According to this dogma, we will rule at least half the project.
Offtopic, but that survey wasn't worth a damn. After reading that article, I wanted to do something similar for statistics project. So I took a close look at his results. He screened the projects for high maturity level, so I did the same. I then sorted the results by activity, and looked at the first 100 results (smaller sample than his, IIRC). First thing you notice is that above 80% of the projects there are small web front ends. Things that I do in about two days at work. This gives a horrible bias to his results. Those projects mature fast, since they take two days to develop, and you don't need more than one programmer to do it. Then you notice that the range is very large. The largest project there is either Python or TCL, with 40+ developers. You really can't compare those to web front ends. So a sample of mature, active projects contain only two kinds of projects: Tiny, one person, 3 days projects, and huge projects that take 50 people and 8 years. IMO those web front ends should have been removed from his sample, since they can't be defined as a project at all. This will change the picture considerably. If you consider only projects written in C/C++, you see a very different picture. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
