On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> Orna says, andI completely concur, that only projects with more than > one major developer should be included. Smaller projects belong on the > developer's homepage, not in any semi official list. i don't think that the number of developers should be the deciding factor. there could be one project that was written by a single developer, and which is quite good and useful (e.g. consider sendmail, which was developed by eric alman solely (almost) for quite a while, same goes for qmail, or e.g. consider various gnutella clients as such), and there could be something that goes the other way around (e.g. look at how wine was for quite a few years in the past - existing, but not quite useful to anyone). what could make sense, is dividing the list into projects of different sizes. that could be huge (over 10M lines of code) - none like this in israel, large (over 1M lines of code), median (over 100K lines of code), small (over 10K lines of code) and tiny (under 10K lines of code). this way, it'll be clear which is what. this is not a mostly fair division, i'd agree - and could lead people to some bias regarding their code, but it can give one a rought estimate of what things are. i would also rule out tiny pieces of code which don't have much ground to stand on their own. note, however, that this will most likely result quite a lot of arguments. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives available at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
