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Bug 323397 - Need to offer more help on counting LOC
Summary: Need to offer more help on counting LOC
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Process (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Eclipse Management Organization CLA
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Reported: 2010-08-23 11:04 EDT by Wayne Beaton CLA
Modified: 2021-12-27 17:26 EST (History)
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Description Wayne Beaton CLA 2010-08-23 11:04:46 EDT 
250 LOC is a magic number in the IP Due Diligence process. But lines are meaningless in Java. This is a wonderful grey area...

DSDP provides some guidance (and a handy script) on their wiki pages:

http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/development/committer_howto.php#sloccount

We should promote this (or words based on it) to a shared page that hangs off the Developer Resources page:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Development_Resources

Other pointers:

http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=490449&
Comment 1 Sharon Corbett CLA 2010-08-23 12:06:20 EDT 
The following was sent to the committer list as well... http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/eclipse.org-committers/msg00512.html
Comment 2 Wayne Beaton CLA 2011-10-24 16:26:03 EDT 
Are we happy with this definition?

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

Is the 250 line policy mentioned anywhere else in our documentation?
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2014-11-25 11:09:18 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 4 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-11-17 05:15:05 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2018-11-09 05:23:27 EST 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 6 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-10-30 14:33:32 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 7 Wayne Beaton CLA 2021-12-27 17:26:08 EST 
This is covered in the FAQ for the IP section in the handbook [1]

[1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#ip-faq