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

[Adriaan Pelzer]

Some clients require something to be built bespoke, because they shy away
from GPL, or they have some ridiculous "security by obscurity"
specification. In these cases, they often expect something with the same
robustness and usability as, for instance, Wordpress, but they think a $100
000, or sometimes even less, would cut it, and they want it in three months.

It's handy to then have these estimates ready when quoting to try and swing
them to the "right" side.

Adriaan Pelzer
RAAK Ltd
http://www.wewillraakyou.com
+4478 7978 1743



On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Jacob Santos <wordpress at santosj.name>wrote:

> Actually, given the feature set, any sane developer would instead build off
> an existing framework decreasing the amount of time it would take to a
> fraction. Many of the lines of code are helper functions, which aren't
> required and thus lowers the required amount of code needed to recreate
> WordPress.
>
> However, if one was going to simply recreate WordPress, they'd be better
> off
> writting a CMS with blogging capabilities.
>
> Jacob Santos
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Arlen Beiler <arlenbee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > > --
> > > Charles E. Frees-Melvin
> > >
> > > Sent from my Rogers iPhone 3G
> > >
> > > On 2010-08-16, at 16:03, Christopher Ross <cross at thisismyurl.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> 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
> > >>> RAAK Ltd
> > >>> http://www.wewillraakyou.com
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> > >>
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> > >>
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