wonder what that graph looks like for Plone?

Interesting stuff bouncing around the Django and RoR blogs in relation to Django's recent effort to remove magic.

This part of the discussion includes a visualization of change for RoR releases: Polishing Ruby: Where is our "magic-removal branch"?

This is the idea that caught my eye: improving a system's refactorability as a quantifiable exercise.

plus quantifying improvement can be a powerful motivator (as anyone who has gone on an optimization binge knows).