Message-ID: <44A5B003.7020903@agliodbs.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:13:07 -0700
From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: brent.wilkins@gmail.com
CC: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS
References: <63ebab9b0606301138h38d516cbo6a9241cd40389d51@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <63ebab9b0606301138h38d516cbo6a9241cd40389d51@mail.gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Brent,

 >  I would also like
> any other data that you guys can supply me.  One data set in
> particular would be a count of downloads. 

Direct downloads for 2005 were 1.4 million.
For a list of the problems with this number as an indicator of any real 
information at all, see:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/the-count-of-downloadia-part-i-5621


  Really everything that is
> available for Source Forge projects would be nice.  I think that I can
> probably mine data on bugs from the mailing list, but is there any
> chance that there is a bug report database which I might be able to
> get data from?

You'd need to mine the archives of the pgsql-bugs list and weed out 
irrelevant discussions, non-bugs, and duplicates.   We've discussed 
adopting a database-driven bug tracker, but so far the advantages don't 
outweigh the burdens for a good number of our contributors.

--Josh Berkus