From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 11:44:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579B316A4CE for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:44:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8389643D1F for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:44:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) i0LJiR0G027775; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:44:28 +0100 (CET) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0LJiRvE053198; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:44:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i0LJiR0g053197; Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:44:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 20:44:27 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Garance A Drosihn Message-ID: <20040121194427.GA53182@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <6.0.1.1.1.20040121092953.0435a3d8@imap.sfu.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Colin Percival Subject: Re: LOC per committer? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 19:44:32 -0000 On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 02:37:18PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:41 AM +0000 1/21/04, Colin Percival wrote: > > Has anyone done any graphs of lines-of-code for each committer > >over the lifetime of the project? I know that rwatson produced > >all sorts of graphs relating to the number of commits, but lines > >of code is something I haven't yet seen anywhere. > > I don't like LOC measurements. It's a measurement which can be > seriously misleading. There are so many ways it can be wrong (IMO), > that I'd hate to have it posted. My idea exactly. Where does it say that lines of code equate to contribution to the Project? E.g. I think we can agree that folks like admins@, donations@, www@ etc do very useful work which does not equate to lines of code. I feel this is an utterly useless discussion. Followups to -chat. W/ -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org