[Gretl-users] Gretl worth $4millon

There is this nice website called Ohloh (http://www.ohloh.net), which provides various metrics for open source projects. It is possible for everybody to submit a project so that their source code crawler monitors up-to-date development activity. Several weeks ago, I had submitted gretl and today I noticed that they have finally processed the data and prepared a report for our favorite econometrics program: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/9753?p=gretl Here are the main findings: - Gretl is composed of a total of 297,477 lines of code. - It would cost $4,274,252 to hire a team to write it from scratch. - The source code is %77 C, %11 shell scripts and %10 XML. - Among the 295 files in gretl, 252 are released under GPL 3.0 or later, 23 are LGPL, 19 are GPL 2.0, and 1 is the New BSD license. - Gretl's code base is mature and well established, however the source code comments are relatively low - Over the entire history of the project, 9 contributors have submitted code. 4 have done so in the last year. - Allin alone did about 90% of all commits over the 6.5 year existence of gretl. As a user (and a minor contributor), I would like to thank Allin and all developers for this excellent program. Keep up the good work! Cheers A. Talha YALTA -- "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) --