Re: PostgreSQL and success of OSS

[Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>]

Brent,

>  I would also like
> any other data that you guys can supply me.  One data set in
> particular would be a count of downloads. 

Direct downloads for 2005 were 1.4 million.
For a list of the problems with this number as an indicator of any real 
information at all, see:
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/the-count-of-downloadia-part-i-5621


 Really everything that is
> available for Source Forge projects would be nice.  I think that I can
> probably mine data on bugs from the mailing list, but is there any
> chance that there is a bug report database which I might be able to
> get data from?

You'd need to mine the archives of the pgsql-bugs list and weed out 
irrelevant discussions, non-bugs, and duplicates.   We've discussed 
adopting a database-driven bug tracker, but so far the advantages don't 
outweigh the burdens for a good number of our contributors.

--Josh Berkus