Re: COCOMO & Indians

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Ibrar Ahmed <ibrar(dot)ahmad(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Do we really need this kind of discussion here?
>
Dont know. But the post would have contained more specific matters.

>
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Sreejesh O S <sreejeshos(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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