Project Assets
Diomidis Spinellis (author of Code Reading) calculated the following numbers for various kinds of human-generated text in the FreeBSD project:
| Asset | Source | Size (KB) | %age |
| Issues database | GNATS | 711783 | 30.5 |
| Source code | C/C++ | 431519 | 18.5 |
| Documentation | troff, DocBook | 114450 | 5.0 |
| Version history | CVS | 1076762 | 46.0 |
As he points out in this month’s IEEE Software article that, this is an indication of just how little of the “stuff” in a real software project is what students think it’s going to be.
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