From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R2kB4-0007At-2P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:34:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1475721C140; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:34:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (unknown [77.75.108.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE1121C125 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:32:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3F8DEB71 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:32:49 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id M+pQ5Pn43sTA for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:40:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B444DDEB6D for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:32:49 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild? Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:32:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <87ehzuiu1y.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <201109111355.08862.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110911150658.343face0@rohan> In-Reply-To: <20110911150658.343face0@rohan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201109111432.49077.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e1ade30422f7dedca6ed22466038911f On Sunday 11 September 2011 14:06:58 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Our rule of thumb for estimated schedules is to get the worst possible > estimate for how long it will take. > > Then multiply by pi On one large project (200 man-years) we found the factor was 2.3. But by the time we had enough data to calculate it, the project was so far behind that it got cancelled. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23