[wp-hackers] Amount of estimated developer-hours in Wordpress?

[Christopher Ross]

Here's the number …

Average lines of code per day (per developer) - 10 *

Average cost of developer (Can) - $45,250 **
Average cost of dev/day (Can) - $181
Average cost per line of code (Can) - $18.10

Lines of Code in WordPress - 136,347 ***

Development days for WordPress = 13,635
Development cost for WordPress = $2,467,935

* http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2894099/10-lines-of-code-per-day-is-the-global-average-true
** http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=PHP_Developer/Salary
*** http://www.ohloh.net/p/wordpress/analyses/latest




On 2010-08-16, at 12:42 PM, Adriaan Pelzer wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know the estimated amount of developer hours in Wordpress
> (latest release, no themes or plugins).
> I want to use this in an argument of platform-based vs bespoke.
> 
> Adriaan Pelzer
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