{"id":1997,"date":"2010-09-21T07:29:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:51:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:51:56","slug":"postgresql-9-0-contributions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/09\/21\/postgresql-9-0-contributions\/","title":{"rendered":"PostgreSQL 9.0: contributions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

New releases are opportunities for reflection! <\/p>\n

As PostgreSQL grows, I would like to know how many people are contributing at any time. This is difficult to measure, given how many people contribute in ways not visible to the internet – advocating for PostgreSQL at work, sharing information about PostgreSQL offline in any way, or developing code related to PostgreSQL that isn’t shared directly back.<\/p>\n

PostgreSQL developers have a habit of mentioning the people involved in the development of features in the commit logs. This includes people who discuss topics on the mailing list, who report bugs, provide test cases or send in patches. I spent a bit of time digging through the commit logs and pulling out unique names that are mentioned. This is a lossy process, as the log files are long, names are not always easy to spot, and I only spent 6 hours going through it.<\/p>\n

I’ve made it through the 9.0 (16163 lines of logs) and 8.4 logs (21257 lines of logs) so far. <\/p>\n

Here’s some basic information about them: <\/p>\n