Looking for productivity values

[Shreya Vakil]

Does any of the developers here have any knowledge on what productivity does
an open source project deliver.Specifically what are the SLOC developed to
the Man hours put in ?

[MarkN]

About the same as a non-open source project. You save a bundle on licensing
and support though.


"Shreya Vakil" <vakil@usc.edu> wrote:
>
>Does any of the developers here have any knowledge on what productivity
does
>an open source project deliver.Specifically what are the SLOC developed
to
>the Man hours put in ?
>
>

[AJ Armstrong]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 01:35:43 -0700, Shreya Vakil wrote:


> Does any of the developers here have any knowledge on what productivity
> does an open source project deliver.Specifically what are the SLOC
> developed to the Man hours put in ?

Hi, Shreya

I think you might be trying to compare apples to oranges here.
SLOC to *person*hours is more a function of development environment
than development philosophy. Open source is better compared to dev.
philosophies, such as traditional waterfall, cyclic (the MS process),
JAD, RAD, Extreme Coding, etc.

Open Source's benefits are not from the amount of code per person
you can recover, but from the sheer number of people that you can
apply. Check out Eric Raymond's 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' for
a well-written (if admittedly partisan) comparison of Open Source
and more traditional approaches.

-aja