What's in a Postgres major release?...
summary
A data-driven audit of the Postgres v17 timeframe: 2,680 commits touching >400,000 changed lines, 232 code and doc authors and 30 committers, 220 commits land same day as the first referenced email, and 150 lines of code from 1996 get replaced. Conference activity includes 29 events, 743 talks by 397 speakers and 239 organizing roles (130 people). Funding snapshots total about €763,000 across tracked sponsorships.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:53Organizing contributions
- 15:19Publishing efforts
- 23:49Engaging the community
- 27:45Code and docs contributions
- 40:30Funding and sponsors
- 45:06Why recognize contributions
- 47:57Q&A and wrap-up
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