[Gnu-arch-users] [OT] counting lines of code

[Tom Lord]

I am curious whether anyone can help to estimate or measure several
particular quantities using publicly available resources.

These are (and I'm not using RH here to pick on them):


        NL:     the average number of new or modified lines 
                of source code released by RH in a year.


        NLX:    of those lines counted in NL, the number of
                new or modified lines executed within 12 
                months of release by more than 3% of RH
                customers.


        NP:     the number of employees of RH who authored
                one or more of those lines


        NPP:    the number of employees of RH or an RH partner
                who authored one or more of those lines


        NPR:    the number of engineering employees of RH whose
                duties include integrating those lines into the
                source code comprising an RH release


        NPPR:   the number of engineering employees of RH or an
                RH partner whose duties include integrating those
                lines into the the source code comprising an RH
                release


Obviously there are various ratios among these numbers that would be
of interest.

-t