[chef] Cookbook statistics?

[Brad Knowles < >]

Folks,

I'm curious to know what kinds of statistics you track regarding your 
cookbooks and your cookbook development.  Do you track how many lines, words, 
and/or characters you have on a per cookbook or recipe basis?

Do you do anything else to try to compare and contrast your cookbook 
development versus more traditional development languages and methods?

Do you do any kind of estimation of effort before starting actual development 
of your cookbooks?


I've been involved in converting a large installation shell script into a 
collection of recipes inside of a cookbook, and even if you cargo-cult the 
bulk of the script as-is, this process has still taken a lot longer than the 
customer expected, and certainly longer than I would have liked.

There was clearly a disconnect and miscommunications there, but I'm now 
trying to better understand underlying metrics and methodologies that I 
should be using to try to prevent these kinds of happening again in the 
future.


Should I be counting the number of lines of code, or words, or characters in 
the shell script and using that as a basis to try and give some sort of 
indication how long it might take to convert?

Is there a typical ratio of lines of code versus words versus characters that 
I should expect to see?

Or am I looking at the wrong end of the telescope?


Thanks!

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