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 EADC59FA0EC for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:38:16 -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 89740-10 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:38:09 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: domain auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D1599FA192 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 15:38:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id 39so242325pyu for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:38:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=sQEn6DM2T8n1jpJLqZwrRJMmvmmGejKtMcbFQJHrgJBTYEVLYAuz1eL2UvVPjZY+ZIbhxCm4eYu5qDYjxpIP0plRdqfOJRT5Oh+QS6uMqb+PVOkTt35XSoubOcPYMtDaQHdTo93/AiKVYsAFUmsw10ICECBGhQknvFrJ/77Jsnc= Received: by 10.35.85.1 with SMTP id n1mr751567pyl; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.20.9 with HTTP; Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:38:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <63ebab9b0606301138h38d516cbo6a9241cd40389d51@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:38:08 -0600 From: "Brent Wilkins" Reply-To: brent.wilkins@gmail.com To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org Subject: Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Archive-Number: 200606/74 X-Sequence-Number: 10230 I wanted to first thank you guys for the help so far. I can tell from the number of responses that you guys like/care about PostgreSQL, which is what you would expect on an open source project. I plan on running through the available data like the CVS repositories, and a tool like the one that Guido suggested (http://statcvs.sourceforge.net/) looks helpful. I would also like any other data that you guys can supply me. One data set in particular would be a count of downloads. 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? If you are interested here is a link to a similar study that another student in my department did which I am using as a guideline: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/%7ebieman/Pubs/tse05TrungBieman.pdf Again, thanks for the help. -- 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.