Re: Release, 3rd draft

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Folks,
>
>> # grep ^From: pgsql-bugs.2005[01][890] | awk -F: '{print $3}' | sort -u
>> | wc -l 218
>> # grep ^From: pgsql-hackers.2005[01][890] | awk -F: '{print $3}' | sort
>> -u | wc -l 272
>
> Well, that's no good either. Do we give up on the whole download counts
> thing, or state the numbers in some other way (i.e. "15,000 downloads per
> month")?

Nothing we are going to come up with is going to be as "impressive" as
MySQLs numbers, if that is what you are striving for here :( Personally,
I don't think that, in light of the fact that their 5.0 has been beta for
*eons* now, that their numbers are that impressive, but one has to put it
into perspective to arrive at that (5.0 has been beta for *how* long now,
over a year?) ...

Based on them being at version 5.0.13, according to FreeBSD ports, and I
believe, still beta ... that is 13 beta releases *so far* to our usual,
what, 4?

Didn't someone mention something like 2 000 000 beta downloads for 5.0?
If so, that an avg of 153k per beta ... with that many testers, is their
code *that* bad that they can't find all the bugs quicker then that?

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