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

Arlen Beiler arlenbee at gmail.com
Mon Aug 16 19:46:37 UTC 2010


34 Person years means it would take 34 people one year or one person
34 years to do that. Correct?

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Charles Frees-Melvin <wordpress at cefm.ca> wrote:
> Your sum negates the lines of code that used to be in wp. Also the number of lines of code that were in revisions of patches that formed the final patch. I
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> On 2010-08-16, at 16:03, Christopher Ross <cross at thisismyurl.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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>> 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.
>>>
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