Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popular open source projects

Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by kuu on Monday May 17, 2021 @03:39AM (#27180920)

Interesting to see that most of them are almost always growing. It would be interesting to compare them to some other metrics, such as TODO/lines_of_code or TODO/num_contributors, to compare the TODO's with the size of the project. I guess that as project gets bigger, it also gets more TODO's

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by cies on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:14AM (#27181848)

> TODO/lines_of_code

At least this is needed for any meaningful comparison between project (or even in projects themselves, as some double in SLOC count over a few months)

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by orthonormal on Monday May 17, 2021 @06:31AM (#27181974)

Ignoring the numbers on vertical axis, plots look like they are normalized to fit the plotting area. TODO/LoC should basically have the same form.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by kuu on Monday May 17, 2021 @07:07AM (#27182146)

I don't think so. These plots are normalized by the max number of TODO's, but that may vastly differ from max TODO/LoC of each project.

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Re:Plotting the source code “TODO” history of the most popul... by cies on Monday May 17, 2021 @08:00AM (#27182484)

Indeed! When those numbers jump up/down in the graphs, there's prolly a code merge/purge cause to it.

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