Comments on: Measuring open-source success by jobs

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:35:57 +0000

I think my feeds are broken. I’m manually searching for MariaDB and Drizzle now, and I see some listings. Please disregard my statement about that in the body of the post.

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:40:49 +0000

Peter, I’m not talking about people who work for Percona or SkySQL or Monty Program, but rather your average company who wants to hire a DBA with skills for MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server/Drizzle.

By: Xaprb

Xaprb — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:40:03 +0000

Colin, I’ve just done some Yahoo Pipes feeds from JuJu, Simply Hired, etc for searches for “Percona” and “MariaDB” and the like.

By: Daniël van Eeden

Daniël van Eeden — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:55:03 +0000

Debian has a popularity contest page for this!

http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=mysql-5.1

I think you should use a formula like this
debian_popcon*0.1+jobs*0.3+downloads*0.1+google_results*0.05

By: Peter Laursen

Peter Laursen — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:36:38 +0000

It is not certain that there ever was a vacancy announcements before a job is positioned. I think most people in Monty Programs/MariaDB and SkySQL just became employed because they were ‘known faces’ and some unofficial contact initially went either way.

A little polemical I’d say that if Percona needs to announce vacancies to attract people they have a problem! :-)

I have also no method for answering the question on how to measure open-source success.