From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org,
 josh@agliodbs.com
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,
>
> > =A0 =A0The one that I can try and answer is the Developer Team Size, wh=
ich
> > 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 man=
ner=20
(amybe +50) on the grounds of companies like enterprisedb, fujitsu,=20
greenplum, and sun, which I would guess have developers working behind the=
=20
scenes on issues thier companies care most about, which then get filtered u=
p=20
through a few individuals to the community at large.  Additionally we also=
=20
have more "closely tied" projects like slony and npgsql to draw in more=20
people.  Thoughts?=20

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