Re: COCOMO & Indians

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Dmitry Turin <
dmitry(dot)turin(at)belarusbank(dot)minsk(dot)by> wrote:

> Hi, Pgsql-hackers.
>
> We would like to obtain your opinion on these two questions:
>
>
> 1) We wanna append possibilities into Postgres engine, and wanna get top
> estimation for
> size of code, cost and time of implementation.
> 1.1) We divide possibilities to elementary features, find analogues in
> already written
> code, and suppose e.g., that quantity of lines for 'create timer' will be
> similar to
> 'create function', and that implementation for 'create timer' is easy than
> implementation
> of 'create function' (because it already has prototype in 'create
> function', and coping
> source code is possiblle)
> 1.2) We calculate cost and time by COCOMO
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocomo
>
> How relevant is this estimation ?
>
>
> 2) We are captivated by price of Indians,
> we listened much about low quality of code, written by Indians,

How do you identify that the code written by Indians is low in quality ? Do
you subcontracted to an Indian company or so ?

>
> we are fearing, that American company will resale implementation to Indian
> subcontractor
> (i.e. real developers will be Indians anyway).
>

>
> What requirements should satisfy code, written by Indians, to be in next
> version of Postgres ?
>
>
>
> Dmitry (SQL50, HTML60)
>
>
>
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