Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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". > > My first problem is what metric to use. > > Lines of code ? Number of binaries ? Something else ? > Give the old adage "lies, damned lies and statistics", you could pick the metric you give you the desired result. Whatever you choose, it will be disputed.
Would packages be a fair option? I suppose you could get the average and standard deviation of package sizes and if the SD is small, it will be a good metric. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
