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> Discussing the press release on IRC, we realized that we really want 
> the number of code, /contrib, and GBORG contributors. Can anyone think 
> of a way we could get that?

That's a tough one. One way would be to scour the CVS logs: the 
core maintainers usually attribute who a certain change was from. 
How you could automate that is beyond me: I have some ideas, however. 

Another way is to look at the email lists. Since most patches come 
through on the patch list, I did a quick count of distinct "from" 
addresses from that list. My archives only go back about a year: 
in that time, there were 1814 messages from 94 different emails. 
About 24 of those were one-shot wonders, but the usual suspects 
topped the list:

    73 | Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
    83 | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
   129 | Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
   307 | Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
   599 | Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

So I think about 90 is probably a good ballpark to start from, 
as far as the number of people contributing to the code. Assuming 
that almost all of the posters to patches are actually contributing 
something. (By way of comparison, the general list saw @28,000 posts 
from 3200 people!) This is for one year, so a total I would roughly 
guess to be about 2-3 times that. I'll go see what I can do with the 
cvs logs...

Greg Sabino Mullane  greg@turnstep.com
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Thu, 14 Nov 2002 02:31:51 -0000
greg@turnstep.com
Re: Press Release -- Numbers
Folks,

Thank you, everyone, for you help with the press release.   The only
thing we're waiting on, I believe, is a quote from Tom Lane on the new
release.   Last-minute copy edits, please, people?

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Pressrelease73

And can anyone persuade Tom to cough up a quote in the next 36 hours?

-Josh Berkus


Sun, 17 Nov 2002 11:43:33 -0800
"Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com>
Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
FYI. I just tried to add a comment to the page, and I got <hr><b> rather
than the formatting of a hard-return and bolding. (i.e. "<hr><b>2002/11/18
10:22 EST (via web):</b><br>" appeared rather than it formatted.

I'll also ask what I asked there, here:
Are there any new replication/backup features?

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:44 PM
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom


Folks,

Thank you, everyone, for you help with the press release.   The only
thing we're waiting on, I believe, is a quote from Tom Lane on the new
release.   Last-minute copy edits, please, people?

http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Pressrelease73

And can anyone persuade Tom to cough up a quote in the next 36 hours?

-Josh Berkus


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Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:39:57 -0500
Jason Hihn <jhihn@paytimepayroll.com>
Re: Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
I wasn't trying to use any formatting. The CGI did that all on it's own...
It put my comments into the PRE block of the annoucement. Maybe moving the
closing PRE tag is all it will need?


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Treat [mailto:xzilla@users.sourceforge.net]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 1:06 PM
To: Jason Hihn
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom


On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:39, Jason Hihn wrote:
> FYI. I just tried to add a comment to the page, and I got <hr><b> rather
> than the formatting of a hard-return and bolding. (i.e. "<hr><b>2002/11/18
> 10:22 EST (via web):</b><br>" appeared rather than it formatted.
>

perhaps comments don't allow html formatting? Justin, can you confirm
this?

> I'll also ask what I asked there, here:
> Are there any new replication/backup features?
>

There haven't been major changes in these areas. There are some
commercial companies that are offering replication solutions you can
look at.  I also know Point In Time Recovery is planned for version 7.4
as well.

BTW - A complete list of changes is included in the source distributions
if you want to check for something specific.

Robert Treat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
>
>
> Folks,
>
> Thank you, everyone, for you help with the press release.   The only
> thing we're waiting on, I believe, is a quote from Tom Lane on the new
> release.   Last-minute copy edits, please, people?
>
> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Pressrelease73
>
> And can anyone persuade Tom to cough up a quote in the next 36 hours?
>
> -Josh Berkus
>



Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:04:00 -0500
Jason Hihn <jhihn@paytimepayroll.com>
Re: Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:39, Jason Hihn wrote:
> FYI. I just tried to add a comment to the page, and I got <hr><b> rather
> than the formatting of a hard-return and bolding. (i.e. "<hr><b>2002/11/18
> 10:22 EST (via web):</b><br>" appeared rather than it formatted.
> 

perhaps comments don't allow html formatting? Justin, can you confirm
this?

> I'll also ask what I asked there, here:
> Are there any new replication/backup features?
> 

There haven't been major changes in these areas. There are some
commercial companies that are offering replication solutions you can
look at.  I also know Point In Time Recovery is planned for version 7.4
as well.  

BTW - A complete list of changes is included in the source distributions
if you want to check for something specific.

Robert Treat

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:44 PM
> To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Thank you, everyone, for you help with the press release.   The only
> thing we're waiting on, I believe, is a quote from Tom Lane on the new
> release.   Last-minute copy edits, please, people?
> 
> http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Pressrelease73
> 
> And can anyone persuade Tom to cough up a quote in the next 36 hours?
> 
> -Josh Berkus
> 



18 Nov 2002 13:05:39 -0500
Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
Re: Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
Robert Treat wrote:
<snip>
> perhaps comments don't allow html formatting? Justin, can you confirm
> this?

Hi guys,

It's kind of a bit more tricky than that.

The Press Release for PG 7.3 page is being worked on as plain text, and
is stored in Zwiki (the software we're using) that way.  HTML inside it
doesn't work.  :-/

It turns out that the "Add Comments" system automatically adds the
needed seperator, but does so in HTML without checking if that's
appropriate.  Have asked the Zwiki guys if they'd consider altering it,
and think it's been added to the "wishlist" area of their bugs tracker,
but that's it.

If anyone here is good with Python, that could be fixed though.

:-)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

 
> > I'll also ask what I asked there, here:
> > Are there any new replication/backup features?
> >
> 
> There haven't been major changes in these areas. There are some
> commercial companies that are offering replication solutions you can
> look at.  I also know Point In Time Recovery is planned for version 7.4
> as well.
> 
> BTW - A complete list of changes is included in the source distributions
> if you want to check for something specific.
> 
> Robert Treat
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org
> > [mailto:pgsql-advocacy-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Josh Berkus
> > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 2:44 PM
> > To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> > Subject: [pgsql-advocacy] Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > Thank you, everyone, for you help with the press release.   The only
> > thing we're waiting on, I believe, is a quote from Tom Lane on the new
> > release.   Last-minute copy edits, please, people?
> >
> > http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/Pressrelease73
> >
> > And can anyone persuade Tom to cough up a quote in the next 36 hours?
> >
> > -Josh Berkus
> >
> 
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Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:41:15 +1100
Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org>
Re: Press Release -- Just Waiting for Tom