Hello, A very interesting link. I've copied the list because maybe they will find it interesting.
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:59, Heigl Florian - Munich-MR - external wrote: > hi, > > (kern I just cc'ed You for info, so You can speak up if You feel > overworked :) > > at http://ohloh.net/opensource/software/bacula > > the effort estimation for bacula shows 48 man years - > well, have a look at the activity statistics and the project > start date. the statistics (and common knowledge) show, > that Kern Sibbald does over 80% of the engineering / coding > work and the project has only going for four years, so a) > the estimate is dead wrong, unless You base it on incredibly > lazy and incompetent designers/coders AND the estimate > is missing a logic check, unless Kern's days have 240 hours > each. Well, I admit 48 man-years seems like a lot, but that depends on exactly how one defines a man-year. Compared to the estimates they show for other projects, it is at least consistent. I find their statistics very interesting, and it is clear that they have managed to figure out the major contributors to the project and the periods they worked -- probably by examining the CVS activity. Also, at least in the case of Bacula, the final commercial dollar value of the software they estimate is probably quite reasonable. By the way, I actually began coding on the project in January 2000. It was only in April of 2002 that I felt it was sufficiently ready to release it for public use. In terms of man-years, two years probably is not a lot, but if I have indeed done 80% of the software development in the last 4+ years (I don't know, but probably reasonable), then those two years would represent mor than one third (35.7%) of the total effort to date (assuming 6.5 years total development time). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
