Re: Impact on PostgreSQL due to Redhat acquisition by IBM

On Fri 16 Nov, 2018, 3:36 AM Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com
wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 5:07 AM Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > On 11/15/18 7:59 AM, Sachin Kotwal wrote:
> > > I feel community has most of linux based instance in thier buildfarm
> for
> > > testing, might be very few Ubuntu based.
> > > I might be wrong here.
> >
> > Easy enough to see:
> >
> > https://buildfarm.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/show_members.pl
>
> Out of curiosity, here are the current counts for HEAD:
>
> Linux distros:
> Amazon Linux: 1
> Arch Linux: 1
> CentOS: 9
> Debian: 34
> Fedora: 5
> Photon: 1
> Raspbian: 2
> RHEL: 8
> SUSE: 7
> Ubuntu: 7
>
> BSD diaspora:
> DragonflyBSD: 1
> FreeBSD: 6
> NetBSD: 2
> OpenBSD: 1
>
> OpenSolaris diapora:
> OmniOS: 1
> SmartOS: 1
>
> Other Unixen:
> AIX: 4
> HP-UX: 3
> macOS: 4
>
> Windows:
> Windows: 6
> Cygwin: 1
>
> I wouldn't be too worried about any of these, especially the open
> ones. Closed Solaris, though, is apparently dead to us. Nobody cares
> enough to build HEAD on it anymore, and for example 3a769d82 (reflink
> support for pg_upgrade) went in without consideration of Solaris 11.4
> reflink(). I've personally moved to the 'acceptance' phase of grief;
> all three Unixes that I cut my teeth on in the 90s are now either
> formally dead and buried or in this case, a zombie.
>
> From personal observations, I know that we have developers and
> committers doing their primary development work on at least Debian,
> Fedora, FreeBSD, macOS, Ubuntu and Windows.
>

Thanks for detail head count and explanation.
It cleared me and i believe should have clear to all new community member
that topic/subject doesn't make any effect on PostgreSQL future.

Regards,
Sachin

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