Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: ohloh stats
I was browsing around for a bit and I looked at the NeoOffice stats on ohloh.net.
There's funny bits, such as the analysis of Patrick's contribution:
Quote:
pluby
This developer has been contributing to this project since June 2003, with a total of 63 person-months of code development.
Which calculates to working on NeoOffice full-time since June 2003 . Ed scored two years full-time, which is equally impressive for someone with a day job.
It also says ground-up development of NeoOffice would cost $ 3,141,449. So if anyone out there is still pondering a donation, I'd say go ahead right now .
Best wishes,
Oscar _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
There's funny bits, such as the analysis of Patrick's contribution:
Quote:
pluby
This developer has been contributing to this project since June 2003, with a total of 63 person-months of code development.
Which calculates to working on NeoOffice full-time since June 2003 .
Which is especially humorous to those of us who remember the old days when Patrick would work on Neo for about a month and then nearly disappear for a month at a time to do a consulting job.
How the world has changed
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki
That's quite incredible isn't it! I just can't decide why on the reviews bit there's more of those "it's slow" comments - I'd love to know what they're comparing it to - I don't think it's any slower than any other app of its size.
Hats off to Patrick and Ed for their many hours/days/weeks/months/YEARS!
ohloh.net's "person months" of work is uncannily accurate. When I tally up the number of months that I have worked full-time on NeoOffice, I come up with nearly the same number.
That site reminded me of the pivotal event that happened in 2005: an anonymous donor approached us gave us a significant amount of funding. This funding plus some personal savings allowed me to stop consulting work and devote all my efforts to NeoOffice.
Of course, since then donations and the help from volunteers have allowed me to keep working full-time on NeoOffice and by working full-time, we have been able to provide very fast and effective support and bug fixing. This, in turn, has allowed Ed to focus his limited spare time exclusively on new features. That, in turn, allowed me to focus on speed and stability improvements.
When I look back over the last 5 years, I really am amazed how the many small donations and volunteering by our users has brought us so far. If someone told me 10 years ago what I would be doing today, I would have thought that they were delusional but, much to my surprise, here we are.
I remember you saying in the early days that it would never work to do this on volunteer money. I am quite happy that you were proven wrong .
edit: On the accuracy of ohloh: could it also be that code just takes a certain amount of time to write properly, no matter what you write? A sort of maturity thing... I wish someone could give me good numbers for a Ph.D. thesis. Then at least I would know how much I have left to do .
Best wishes,
Oscar _________________ "What do you think of Western Civilization?"
"I think it would be a good idea!"
- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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. Ed scored two years full-time, which is equally impressive for someone with a day job.
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