On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net>wrote:
> Top posting. > Thanks for this explanation! > It will indeed help to temper some of the claims about these numbers. > > Hagar > Indeed, thank you! Who knew? > > > Le 02/12/2013 19:24, Rob Weir a écrit : > > > You've probably seen various social media posts, blogs, articles, >> etc., purporting to compare AOO and LO via commit statistics. If you >> poke a little you see that these are almost always derived from Ohloh. >> You can see our numbers here: >> >> https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice >> >> It is important to keep in mind what exactly Ohloh is doing. They are >> looking at our Subversion repository, at the source and website >> trunks, and tracking the commits made there. But we have done our >> most-significant code in branches, not in the trunk. All of the >> Sidebar work was done in a branch, all of the IAccesible2 work was >> done in branch and all of the 4.0.1 work was done in a branch. That's >> how we do use Subversion: develop new features in a branch and merge >> to the trunk when stable. >> >> So how does Ohloh treat this approach to version control? As an >> example, look at how the IAccesible2 addition was treated: >> >> https://www.ohloh.net/p/openoffice/commits/303139831 >> >> As you can see, Ohloh sees this as a single commit. Yes, 601 files >> were modified, but it still shows up as only a single commit, because >> Ohloh only sees the merge. It does not see the actually underlying >> development activity. >> >> A similar thing happened with the Sidebar feature as well. The >> development effort was accounted for as a single commit. >> >> LO, on the other hand, uses a different approach with git, and every >> single one of their commits are registered by Ohloh, even if it is a >> one-line change. So comparing AOO and LO Ohloh stats is not a valid >> comparison. >> >> Of course, this is not to blame Ohloh. The fault is not in their >> service. The fault lies with those who take such numbers and do false >> comparisons. This is intellectually dishonest and I think we should >> point this out wherever we see it. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Cats do not have to be shown how to have a good time, for they are unfailing ingenious in that respect." -- James Mason
