Ohloh’s Project Cost?

2 commentsWritten on December 21st, 2009 by
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I was looking at Ohloh’s estimated project cost for Agatha and something is… wrong:

code_only_cost markup_onlycode_and_markup

The result for ‘Code Only’ might be a somewhat representative estimate, but look at how screwed up the numbers are once markup is included.  Now, i don’t know if you’ve ever looked at the Agatha codebase but there certainly aren’t over 66000 lines of markup to be found.  There is a bit of XML here and there, mostly WCF configuration in the example solution but that still doesn’t come nowhere near 66000 lines.  It doesn’t even add up to 1000 lines.

A similar result can be found when looking at the estimations of Rhino Tools:

rt_code_only rt_markup_only rt_code_and_markup

Over 70000 lines of markup compared to 54000 lines of code? I highly doubt it.

Just something to keep in mind when looking at Ohloh’s estimates, i guess ;)

  • Ryan Roberts

    Is it reading assembly doc xml?

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    ah, that’s probably it :)
    that never even occurred to me