Re: [xsl] COCOMO project cost metrics for Saxon and XQilla

Subject: Re: [xsl] COCOMO project cost metrics for Saxon and XQilla
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:22:19 -0800
There is something fundamentally wrong with Ohloh.

http://www.ohloh.net/p/fxsl


FXSL is evaluated as a 103 person years project that would cost $5.7M
to develop.


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On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Justin Johansson <procode@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Having just happened across these COCOMO metrics*** on Ohloh for Saxon and
XQilla
> XSLT/XQuery/XPath products/projects, I thought the list might be interested
in the
> "bean count" estimates assuming a developer salary of $55000 p.a. to write
these projects
> from scratch.
>
> *** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO
>
> For Saxon (and presumably this just the Open Source Non-SA codebase)
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/saxon
>
> 50 Person Years B $ 2,743,467
>
> And for XQilla
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/xqilla
>
> 35 Person Years B $ 1,899,031
>
> Obviously it's anyone's guess if there's more than zero significant digits
in the
> $ values let alone 7 digits! B Actually I stumbled across the XQilla page
first and,
> given the friendly URL, took a stab at seeing if Saxon was there too. And it
was!
>
> Any comments, people?
>
> Cheers,
> Justin Johansson

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