Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:26:39 -0700
From: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>,
	Brent Wilkins <wilkins@cs.colostate.edu>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS
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On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Marc,
> 
> > 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:
> 
> I stick with Greg's estimate of "about 200" that he did for 7.4.  That 
> included: 
> 
> core contributors
> minor patch submitters
> beta testers (the ones who submitted bug fixes)
> key contributors to closely associated projects (like JDBC, ODBC, and 
> OpenFTS)
> 
> It was a lot of research on his part which is why I don't want to do
> it again.

Also pertinent to such assessments is the Open Source Maturity Model
<http://www.seriouslyopen.org/nuke/html/index.php> which has some
interesting ways of measuring projects.  As you might guess,
PostgreSQL is right off the scale on every one of their metrics :)

Cheers,
D
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