Almost all large software shops have some sort of cheesy "dashboard" for upper management. Some of these analyze source code for line numbers, progress filling

Almost all large software shops have some sort of cheesy "dashboard" for upper management. Some of these analyze source code for line numbers, progress filling in templates, test results, etc. http://ohloh.net/ http://ohloh.net/ analyzes source code of open source projects and reports on them, such as commenting ratio (it warns you about projects that are 15% or less comments depending on language). This solves the problem of people wanting to know the health of certain projects.