Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 01:20:19PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Marc,
>
> > The one that I can try and answer is the Developer Team Size,
> > which is a # that is very hard to arrive at .. the 'clearly
> > defined developers' are all listed at:
>
> I stick with Greg's estimate of "about 200" that he did for 7.4. That
> included:
>
> core contributors
> minor patch submitters
> beta testers (the ones who submitted bug fixes)
> key contributors to closely associated projects (like JDBC, ODBC, and
> OpenFTS)
>
> It was a lot of research on his part which is why I don't want to do
> it again.

Also pertinent to such assessments is the Open Source Maturity Model
<http://www.seriouslyopen.org/nuke/html/index.php> which has some
interesting ways of measuring projects. As you might guess,
PostgreSQL is right off the scale on every one of their metrics :)

Cheers,
D
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