{"id":537,"date":"2008-11-26T19:01:22","date_gmt":"2008-11-27T03:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/11\/26\/postgres-mailing-list-traffic-over-time\/"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:56:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:56:07","slug":"postgres-mailing-list-traffic-over-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/11\/26\/postgres-mailing-list-traffic-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgres mailing list traffic over time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/commit2.jpg' alt='Code vs. Docs' width=\"350px\"\/><br \/>\n<br \/>Graph by Magnus Hagander<\/font><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Spurred on by <a href=\"http:\/\/momjian.us\/main\/blogs\/pgblog.html#November_20_2008\">Bruce&#8217;s recent blog post<\/a>, I spotted a fun thread on pgsql-general:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-general\/2008-11\/msg01026.php\">http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-general\/2008-11\/msg01026.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few core contributors have been examining their archives and speculating why it is that some feel that they can&#8217;t keep up with mailing list traffic as well as they used to.<\/p>\n<p>Reasons tossed around included: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More people involved<\/li>\n<li>More patches<\/li>\n<li>Contributors are just getting older<\/li>\n<li>More in-depth questions. Tom said: &#8220;Fewer, How do you pronounce Postgres? and more, Explain the various isolation levels for transactions and how does that affect my particular situation?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Out came the graphs! Tom Lane kicked things off initially with a plot of mailing list messages since 1998: <\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/noname.gif' alt='Tom Lane's graph' width=\"350\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I shared one of Magnus&#8217; graphs about Code vs. Documentation at the top.  There are several more graphs shared in that thread that are worth checking out, along with pointers to resources like <a href=\"http:\/\/pgsql.markmail.org\/search\/?q=list%3Aorg.postgresql.pgsql-general\">MarkMail<\/a>, graphs from <a href=\" http:\/\/0ape.com\/postgres_mailinglist_size\/\">Ron Mayer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohloh.net\/projects\/postgres\/analyses\/latest\">Ohloh<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graph by Magnus Hagander Spurred on by Bruce&#8217;s recent blog post, I spotted a fun thread on pgsql-general: http:\/\/archives.postgresql.org\/pgsql-general\/2008-11\/msg01026.php A few core contributors have been examining their archives and speculating why it is that some feel that they can&#8217;t keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2008\/11\/26\/postgres-mailing-list-traffic-over-time\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,9],"tags":[171,169,172,170,647],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-culture","tag-growth","tag-introspection","tag-mailing-list","tag-postgres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}