Re: Release, 3rd draft

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 01:51:31PM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Josh Berkus wrote:
> >Jim, Josh, Lance:
> >
> >
> >>I would say ignore the number of beta downloads and focus on the number
> >>of community members assisting.
> >
> >
> >What's the number of unique posters to pgsql-bugs and pgsql-hackers since
> >beta started? Can anyone get me that number?
> >
>
> In Sept-05 there were: 1466 posts to hackers I have no idea how many of
> those were unique posters.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake

I think others are right; we're not going to be able to make the beta
numbers look good and should just drop the mention of it.

TBH, I'm actually wondering if we'll hit the same numbers we did with
8.0. Windows support was a huge feature, and I suspect it drove a lot of
those downloads are windows...

Hmm, looking at
http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2005-09/msg00057.php,
there were 700,000 windows downloads out of 1M, meaning 300k non-windows
downloads, which is exactly the number we had for 'the previous version'
(whichever version that is). So based on that, *all* our growth has been
on windows.

Are we really 2x more popular on windows than on *nix?

I'm really thinking we need a trivially easy way for users to register
that they've started using version xyz of the database. I think we're
barely better than making WAGs here.
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