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From: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Cc: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
Cc: Brent Wilkins <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:20:35 -0400
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On Wednesday 28 June 2006 16:20, 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.

I wonder if that number would need to be bumped up in a rather handwavy manner 
(amybe +50) on the grounds of companies like enterprisedb, fujitsu, 
greenplum, and sun, which I would guess have developers working behind the 
scenes on issues thier companies care most about, which then get filtered up 
through a few individuals to the community at large.  Additionally we also 
have more "closely tied" projects like slony and npgsql to draw in more 
people.  Thoughts? 

-- 
Robert Treat
Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL

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