Well, at the risk of embarrassing our esteemed Bug Fixer Extraordinaire, after
verifying that it is, indeed, the same man, Kudos to the 7th most prolific
open-source author in the world THOMAS G LANE!!!

http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.

Good for grins, if nothing else.  I think they are counting by actual bytes of
source code contributed (however they measure that -- probably, in most cases,
by copyright notices.).  In any case, hoorays for Tom Lane (and for the rest of
the Free Software community).  It is unfortunate, however, that the PostgreSQL
project isn't counted amongst his contributees.

(Tom, yes I _did_ have to do that... :-) :-) ).

Of course, that is not meant to belittle anyone at all.... as all the
developers here have contributed valuable features and fixes to the best Free
RDBMS around.  (InterBase is not likely to ever be 'Free' in that 'Free
Software' sense of the word -- open source does not mean 'Free!')

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Sun, 7 May 2000 20:10:42 -0400
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
A celebrity among us :-)
On Sun, 07 May 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:
> http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.

Incidentally, PostgreSQL (6.5.3) is listed, at the following url:
http://orbiten.org/ofss/codd-render.cgi?action=project&codd=results/may2000/freshmeat-05012000/postgresql-6.5.3.codd

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1 Peter 4:11

Sun, 7 May 2000 21:58:12 -0400
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org>
Re: A celebrity among us :-)
Lamar Owen wrote:
> 
> Well, at the risk of embarrassing our esteemed Bug Fixer Extraordinaire, after
> verifying that it is, indeed, the same man, Kudos to the 7th most prolific
> open-source author in the world THOMAS G LANE!!!
> 
> http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.
> 

Now I know who to contact for all my Discrete Cosine Transform
questions.

> Good for grins, if nothing else.  I think they are counting by actual bytes of
> source code contributed (however they measure that -- probably, in most cases,
> by copyright notices.).  In any case, hoorays for Tom Lane (and for the rest of
> the Free Software community).  It is unfortunate, however, that the PostgreSQL
> project isn't counted amongst his contributees.

Just glancing through the CVS logs leads me to believe that, with
PostgreSQL, maybe it should go:

1. FSF
2. Sun Microsystems
3. Tom Lane
4. UCLA

Just my humble opinion, of course :-)

Mike Mascari

Sun, 07 May 2000 22:03:26 -0400
Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com>
Re: A celebrity among us :-)
> On Sun, 07 May 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.
> 
> Incidentally, PostgreSQL (6.5.3) is listed, at the following url:
> http://orbiten.org/ofss/codd-render.cgi?action=project&codd=results/may2000/freshmeat-05012000/postgresql-6.5.3.codd

OK, I see it.  Now, what is it?

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Sun, 7 May 2000 22:10:30 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: A celebrity among us :-)
> > On Sun, 07 May 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.
> > 
> > Incidentally, PostgreSQL (6.5.3) is listed, at the following url:
> > http://orbiten.org/ofss/codd-render.cgi?action=project&codd=results/may2000/freshmeat-05012000/postgresql-6.5.3.codd
> 
> OK, I see it.  Now, what is it?

OK, I see now.  Wow, Tom Lane is up there.  How can I be 143?  I even
show up in Krunning, and I have never heard of it.  Also remember that
my CVS commit shows up for any patch that does not have CVS commit
privs, so it is overstated.

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Sun, 7 May 2000 22:20:51 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: A celebrity among us :-)
> > > On Sun, 07 May 2000, Lamar Owen wrote:
> > > > http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.
> > > 
> > > Incidentally, PostgreSQL (6.5.3) is listed, at the following url:
> > > http://orbiten.org/ofss/codd-render.cgi?action=project&codd=results/may2000/freshmeat-05012000/postgresql-6.5.3.codd
> > 
> > OK, I see it.  Now, what is it?
> 
> OK, I see now.  Wow, Tom Lane is up there.  How can I be 143?  I even
> show up in Krunning, and I have never heard of it.  Also remember that
> my CVS commit shows up for any patch that does not have CVS commit
> privs, so it is overstated.

Man, Tom Lane has 17 projects under his name.  Wow.  Is that all jpeg
stuff, Tom?

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Sun, 7 May 2000 22:23:00 -0400 (EDT)
Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Re: A celebrity among us :-)
Lamar Owen <lamar.owen@wgcr.org> writes:
> http://orbiten.org/ofss/01.html for reference.

> Good for grins, if nothing else.

And little else.  I think the reason I'm up there is just that there are
a ton of open-source programs that have incorporated libjpeg.  AFAICT
the survey just counted copyright notices appearing in open-source
distributions; so if your code appears in N programs you get N times as
much credit as you should.  I certainly don't have more lines of open
source circulating than MIT does...

> (Tom, yes I _did_ have to do that... :-) :-) ).

No you didn't... this survey is too bogus to deserve quoting.  (If
they're going to treat groups like FSF and the entire UC system as a
single author, and *draw conclusions that are stated as though they
believed FSF and UC are single authors*, what use is it?  They have
a lot of work to do.)

			regards, tom lane
			organizer, Independent JPEG Group

Sun, 07 May 2000 22:46:48 -0400
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: A celebrity among us :-) 