X-Original-To: pgsql-www-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B9BF9FA425 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:55 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.251]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02382-06 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:50 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FD1A9FA319 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:50 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A5D291AF9 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:49 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 51272-05; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 17:40:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590A3291987; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0072D4A4C5; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:44 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39554A3F9; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:44 -0300 (ADT) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:40:44 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Brent Wilkins cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS In-Reply-To: <63ebab9b0606281026t5e125670ye8771f883e76954a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20060628143409.F1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <63ebab9b0606281026t5e125670ye8771f883e76954a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200606/61 X-Sequence-Number: 10217 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. > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664