X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19B6D5E46C0 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:58:36 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53144-01 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 16:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (imap.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42A955E46BF for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 13:58:24 -0300 (ADT) Received: (qmail 28572 invoked by uid 65534); 12 Aug 2004 16:58:31 -0000 Received: from dsl-082-082-232-112.arcor-ip.net (EHLO colt.pezone.net) (82.82.232.112) by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 12 Aug 2004 18:58:31 +0200 X-Authenticated: #495269 From: Peter Eisentraut To: Tom Lane Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:58:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Josh Berkus , "Dave Page" , "PostgreSQL www" References: <200408111923.23566.peter_e@gmx.net> <15345.1092249023@sss.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <15345.1092249023@sss.pgh.pa.us> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200408121858.30661.peter_e@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200408/104 X-Sequence-Number: 4879 Tom Lane wrote: > Sure, but the download counts just following a new release would give > us a reading on enthusiastic real users --- ie, people who are > interested enough to download a new major release as soon as it's > available. I guess you could compare the 8.0 download counts to the 7.4 and earlier counts on a few cooperating sites to get a growth curve. That should tell you more than absolute numbers anyway. -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/