[cosmos-dev] Fw: [eclipse.org-committers] Committes: How to count lines

[Ruth Lee <ruthdaly@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Committers,

A reminder that when you are checking
a contribution that has been sent to you via bugzilla that you are required
to check the number of lines that it contains. If it exceeds 200 lines
of code then we need to request permission from Eclipse Legal before committing
the code to CVS. 

A health question to all Subproject
Leads: how many code contributions have your committers checked into CVS
and of them how many exceed 200 lines of code? Tania, when you book the
pre-release-review meeting, can you add this item to the agenda, please?
We'll need this information in order to create our Project IP Log.

Thanks,
Ruth.


Ruth Lee
IBM Toronto Lab
ruthdaly@xxxxxxxxxx
T/L 313-4453
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"Oberhuber, Martin" <Martin.Oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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03/27/2008 12:47 PM

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Subject	[eclipse.org-committers] Committes: How to count lines of code in a        contribution

Dear Committers,
 
Here's a message due to a recent incident:
part of our due diligence when accepting
a community contribution is filing the tm-log.csv IP log, which also asks
for a lines of code number in the contribution.
 
How to count lines of code most easily,
and correctly?
You might want to consider using my "lcp"
script to count lines in a patch:
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/development/committer_howto.php#sloccount

It counts the "+" added
lines only and subtracts empty lines as well as lines that only have a
comment.

You're right that removing lines also constitutes an act of creativity
so even a patch that ONLY removes lines is valuable. But for the application
in our tm-log.csv it's more important to count how much new copyrightable
stuff comes
in through the patch. And that is comprised of the "+" lines
only.

The script is still not perfect in the case where existing code is only
moved to a different place (leading to lots of + along with the same number
of - lines, which also constitutes creativity but not necessarily new copyrightable
stuff). But finding out such moves is beyond the scope of what we should
do when counting lines.
Hope you find this useful,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior
Member of Technical Staff, Wind
River
Target Management Project Lead,
DSDP PMC Member
http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
 
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