Inspired by the PHP Eats Rails for Breakfast report, I’ve registered Midgard CMS at Ohloh, a service tracking code contributions in various free software projects.

Even though it only covers the post-filesystem transition MidCOM and not whole Midgard, the Midgard Ohloh report has interesting things to tell:

• Codebase: 235,264 lines of code
• Estimated effort to produce: 62 man years
• Cost to produce: 3,4 million USD
• Programming languages:
  • PHP: 61%
  • Javascript: 27%
  • HTML: 10%

We’ll have to see how the numbers change once I add the main Midgard repository with its accumulated history since 1999.

Tobias Schlitt has more detailed analysis of a MidCOM competitor, eZ components on Ohloh.