Openhub's summary of the PISM project

Published: Nov 26, 2017 by The PISM Authors

We think PISM has pretty-good open-source-software cred. But don’t take our word for it. Here is the automatically-generated nutshell (here, on 4 November 2017) at openhub.net:

In a Nutshell, Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)…

  • has had 6,867 commits made by 21 contributors representing 76,716 lines of code
  • is mostly written in C++ , with a well-commented source code
  • has a well established, mature codebase, maintained by a large development team, with stable Y-O-Y [year-on-year] commits
  • took an estimated 19 years of effort (COCOMO model), starting with its first commit in September, 2006, ending with its most recent commit 2 days ago`

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