Re: The value of LilyPond, according to Ohloh

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

I think the number is way off.  AFAICS at
http://www.ohloh.net/p/lilypond/enlistments?page=2, they counted all
stable branches as separate.

Last time I looked lilypond was around 100k lines of code (a quick
look says it 200k now; I suspect the GNU headers as a cause). 390 man
years looks exaggeratedl, since I wrote most of it (at least before
2007), and it took me much less than 300 years. Realistically,
lilypond may represent 20-40 man years, considering I must have put in
well over 10 personally.


On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> wrote:
> So I was googling for yaffut to see what I could learn about it, and I
> found that ohloh has a rating system for the projects in its database.
>
> I looked up LilyPond, and found it:
>
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/lilypond
>
>
> The factoids about it are very complimentary.
>
> One interesting point -- the estimated value of LilyPond is $16,000,000
>
> Over 1 million lines of code.
>
> The estimated developer time is 309 man years
>
> LilyPond is a *real* software project.
>
> Just an interesting fact.
>



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