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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Brent Wilkins <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:44 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>


Hi Brent ...

   I'm CC'ng in the -www group of PostgreSQL, since you are asking 
questions that will need to be pulled in from various sources ... and/or 
are difficult to answer over all ...

   The one that I can try and answer is the Developer Team Size, which is a 
# that is very hard to arrive at .. the 'clearly defined developers' are 
all listed at:

       http://www.postgresql.org/developer/bios

   Of which we have >50 ... but, this doesn't include everyone and anyone 
that has ever contributed a patch to the source tree ... our -hackers 
mailing list, where most, if not all, of our talks about development take 
place, there are over 1400 subscribers, so there are *alot* of ppl 
lurking, or, if not lurking, providing periodic comments concerning 
development ... not all of those are "coders" ...



On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Brent Wilkins wrote:

> Hello Marc, I'm a computer science student at CSU working on a
> research project on the success of OSS.  Studies conducted in the past
> have identified several metrics such as downloads and developer team
> size as good indicators of success.  PostgreSQL is clearly a success
> and I would like to have access to data like download counts, and
> anything else that might help in order to try and identify objective
> measures which can hopefully be linked/related to subjective success.
> So, if possible please send me any data like the data typically
> available on Source Forge, and/or an email address of some one inside
> PostgreSQL who may be interested in helping.  Thanks.
>
> -- 
> A pessimist says the glass is half-empty. An optimist says the glass
> is half-full. An engineer recognizes that the glass is simply too big.
>

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