On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, guy keren wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Would you mind me putting all the projects in a database, and generating a
few reports based on them? (by size, by category, etc.)
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
> 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
>
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>
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