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

[Christopher Ross]

Yes, the $2.4 million represents the total value of WordPress across all versions. I think we read the original request differently as I thought he meant the total value of the final release, excluding plugins etc.


On 2010-08-16, at 4:41 PM, Charles Frees-Melvin 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:
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>>> 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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