Thread: "Need some information about postgresql products and community"
Dear Sir,
We are gathering information regarding PostgreSQL open source product quality and its community. Can you kindly help me to find following data.
1. Number of releases happened since last 12 months along with its version numbers.
2. Number of Bugs fixed since last 12 months and last 6 months.
3. Activities in each of the mailing list. Like number of posts and number of members involved since last 12 months and last 6 months.
4. Number of code contributors since last 12 months and last 6 months.
5. Major contributors to the community.
6. Number of downloads of the PostgreSQL open source software.
With Regrards
Mithun C Y
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On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:29 AM, mithun <mithun.chicklore.yogendra@huawei.com> wrote: > Dear Sir, > > We are gathering information regarding PostgreSQL open source product > quality and its community. Can you kindly help me to find following data. Your questions are incredibly broad, so you're going to get some broad answers. > 1. Number of releases happened since last 12 months along with its > version numbers. look here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/ > 2. Number of Bugs fixed since last 12 months and last 6 months. look here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/ > 3. Activities in each of the mailing list. Like number of posts and > number of members involved since last 12 months and last 6 months. see here: http://www.postgresql.org/community/lists/ The important lists are -general, -hackers > 4. Number of code contributors since last 12 months and last 6 months. look here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/ also here: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/ > 5. Major contributors to the community. see here: http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ > 6. Number of downloads of the PostgreSQL open source software. That's very hard to get, since a large percentage of postgresql installations are using operating system supplied packages. merlin
On 08/28/2012 04:47 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:29 AM, mithun > <mithun.chicklore.yogendra@huawei.com> wrote: >> Dear Sir, >> >> We are gathering information regarding PostgreSQL open source product >> quality and its community. Can you kindly help me to find following data. > > Your questions are incredibly broad, so you're going to get some broad answers. indeed - not sure what the purpuse is but well... > >> 1. Number of releases happened since last 12 months along with its >> version numbers. > > look here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/ > >> 2. Number of Bugs fixed since last 12 months and last 6 months. > > look here: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-bugs/ i think that looking at the git shortlog of a stable branch(or the release notes of a stable branch) is actually painting a more realistic picture of the bug fixing activity http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/REL9_1_STABLE Stefan
I am curious as to why you want this information, and what you intend doing with it.Dear Sir,
We are gathering information regarding PostgreSQL open source product quality and its community. Can you kindly help me to find following data.
1. Number of releases happened since last 12 months along with its version numbers.
2. Number of Bugs fixed since last 12 months and last 6 months.
3. Activities in each of the mailing list. Like number of posts and number of members involved since last 12 months and last 6 months.
4. Number of code contributors since last 12 months and last 6 months.
5. Major contributors to the community.
6. Number of downloads of the PostgreSQL open source software.
With Regrards
Mithun C Y
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As to quality, I would have thought performance metrics, sizes of databases, ... would have been useful.
Cheers,
Gavin
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