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| From: | Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:34:30 | ||
| Message-Id: | 201109111432.49077.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? by Alan McKinnon |
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| 1 | On Sunday 11 September 2011 14:06:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > Our rule of thumb for estimated schedules is to get the worst possible |
| 4 | > estimate for how long it will take. |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > Then multiply by pi |
| 7 | |
| 8 | On one large project (200 man-years) we found the factor was 2.3. But by the |
| 9 | time we had enough data to calculate it, the project was so far behind that |
| 10 | it got cancelled. |
| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Rgds |
| 14 | Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23 |