[Koha] [Koha-devel] Koha development

[Tomas Cohen Arazi]

I'm not sure how to count it either. This would be my estimate.

I spend 50% of my time doing Release Manager duties, the rest is spent
working on development and documentation. But if I count the amount of
hours I work for Koha, I should count a total of 1.3 FTE, I guess. If I
count Bernardo, it'd be something like:

Universidad Nacional de Cordoba (Tomas + Bernardo)
Quality Assurance: 0.6 FTE + 0,1 FTE = 0.6 FTE
Development: 0.5 FTE + 0.1 FTE = 0.6 FTE
Documentation:  0.2 FTE

Community participation is difficult to count.

I'm interested on the numbers you can collect. My hypothesis would be that
more development allocation is available than most proprietary ILS
products. Of course it fluctuates every year, but the OpenHub numbers speak
of themselves 88 contributors for 2014. Unfortunately I cannot find a way
to get the COCOMO-model invested working hours.

Good luck, Marshall!


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Marshall Breeding <
marshall.breeding at librarytechnology.org> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> This estimate helps quite a bit.  Part of what I'm working toward is being
> able to have a figure for Koha that corresponds to what the vendors
> developing proprietary products allocate to product development.  They also
> have lots of staff devoted to things like marketing and administration, but
> the point of comparison is the FTE allocated to development.  My hypothesis
> is that the overall development allocation for Koha is similar to that for
> proprietary ILS products and I hope to be able to document that to some
> degree.
>
> -marshall
>
>
>
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> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Koha development
>
> Le 12/02/2015 15:07, Marshall Breeding a écrit :
> > To the Koha development community,
> Hi Marshall,
> > Could each of the support firms or individuals involved in Koha
> development please either post to this list or send to me individually the
> FTE that you or your organization contributes for each of the major
> categories of activity?
> >
> Really : it's impossible to evaluate properly.
> some numbers can be evaluated, some can't.
>
> For example, BibLibre :
>   * has Jonathan working full time on Koha. Half time dedicated to the
> community, half time dedicated to development sponsored by customers (but
> still on Koha, and for a direct benefit of the Koha community). So, OK,
> jonathan = 1 FTE
>   * has Fridolin being Release Maintainer. He releases a version every
> month (4 hours to package it, roughly), plus a variable number of hours to
> push patches (between 1 and 10 ? it depends on what is waiting to be
> pushed. Let's say an average of 5 hours). 1 version every month, 9 hours
> per version = 9*12 = 118 (this number is wrong, it's an estimate)
>   * has a support team of 3 (including fridolin), that regularly submit
> bugfixes. Frankly, we don't count the specific time dedicated to fixing a
> bug and submitting a patch vs the time dedicated to the customer.
>   * has other developers regularly submitting patches (julian, matthias,
> ...)
>   * has me ... who does not submit patches anymore, but I'm trying to
> organize all the work at BibLibre, do some non-dev things for the
> community. Should I count this ? I think yes, because (I hope), the project
> also move through non technical work.
>   * has all our staff participate to the hackfest in Europe, 1 full week
> in march = 17*40 ?
>   * has 2 or more ppl going to the KohaCon every year.
>
> Overall, I really really can't calculate the involvment of BibLibre as you
> ask, I'm sorry. Maybe saying 3 FTE is a rough-not-illogic estimate, but
> it's an estimate !
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Paul Poulain, Associé-gérant / co-owner
> BibLibre, expert du logiciel libre pour les bibliothèques BibLibre, Open
> Source software for libraries expert
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