Darren J Moffat writes:
> I need to calculate (plus or minus about 5%) what percentage of the
> whole Solaris product is open source today and what percentage it is
> likely to be when Solaris 11 releases. It doesn't matter if the source
> is hosted on opensolaris.org or is source like stuff in the SFW
> consolidation that is "brought in".
I'd expect it to be 90% or better by S11 release.
> My first problem is what metric to use.
>
> Lines of code ? Number of binaries ? Something else ?
The answer almost certainly depends crucially on the underlying
problem you're trying to solve. "Percentage of the product" isn't an
underlying problem; it's just a tactic to solve some real problem.
Given that "the product Solaris" is in binary form (there's no actual
product called Solaris in source form; there's only a community called
Open Solaris that has source access), I'd figure that the right thing
to do is one of the following:
- Enumerate the file system objects on a fully-installed
Solaris system and find the history of each.
- Enumerate just the packages on the distribution, and assign
an open/closed flag to each.
The latter's probably simpler but, either way, good luck. It sounds
like an unenviable project.
> Can anyone help me out with some suggestions on how to approach this.
>
> Oh and before you ask I don't really want to go into why I need to do
> this, it is complex and there are legal reasons for wanting to do it
> (but not the kind that most people would expect) but I just want to say
> that in the long run it is for the greater good of OpenSolaris and the
> Solaris distribution of it (though it will indirectly assist other
> distributions a little as well).
Well, that was oblique. Lemme guess: export control. ;-}
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