Summer of Code Preparation

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#1Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me a line!

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Aglio Database Solutions
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#2Jim Nasby
Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

If nothing else, any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
work for an entire summer.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
for this.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We
need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
a line!

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Aglio Database Solutions
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#3Nathan Buchanan
nbinont@gmail.com
In reply to: Jim Nasby (#2)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

A list of simpler TODOs would be great. I might be interested in doing
something (probably w/o the summer of code because I have a summer job).
We'll see after exams finish.

Please post something about where we can find this TODO list when it is
available.

Thanks,
Nathan

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On 4/5/06, Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote:

If nothing else, any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
work for an entire summer.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
for this.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We
need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
a line!

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Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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#4Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Jim Nasby (#2)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

Summer of Code projects dont have to revolve around the core project... for
example drupal got like 11 projects last year and bricolage got a few too; I
got a small list of items that could be looked at that are sort of 3rd party
projects, should we attempt to collaborate on putting up a list some place?

Robert Treat

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:22, Jim Nasby wrote:

If nothing else, any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
work for an entire summer.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
for this.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We
need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
a line!

--
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Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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#5Josh Berkus
josh@agliodbs.com
In reply to: Robert Treat (#4)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

Robert,

Summer of Code projects dont have to revolve around the core project...
for example drupal got like 11 projects last year and bricolage got a
few too; I got a small list of items that could be looked at that are
sort of 3rd party projects, should we attempt to collaborate on putting
up a list some place?

Sure, although the important part is to find students. I'm not sure how we
do that.

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Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

#6The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#5)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Josh Berkus wrote:

Robert,

Summer of Code projects dont have to revolve around the core project...
for example drupal got like 11 projects last year and bricolage got a
few too; I got a small list of items that could be looked at that are
sort of 3rd party projects, should we attempt to collaborate on putting
up a list some place?

Sure, although the important part is to find students. I'm not sure how we
do that.

Do we have any professors online? How about anyone that works for Sun
*wink*, who, I believe, have educational programs that we might be able to
tap into?

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#7John DeSoi
desoi@pgedit.com
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#6)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Apr 5, 2006, at 5:04 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

Sure, although the important part is to find students. I'm not
sure how we
do that.

Do we have any professors online?

I'm not one, but I know some. If there is a link with details and
perhaps a list of possible projects, I'll be happy to spread the word.

John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

#8Jim Nasby
Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com
In reply to: Robert Treat (#4)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS
projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have
students work on those...

As for finding students, I believe a call on -general and -announce
would probably produce results. I know there's some professors on the
lists (most likely to be on -general...)

On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Robert Treat wrote:

Summer of Code projects dont have to revolve around the core
project... for
example drupal got like 11 projects last year and bricolage got a
few too; I
got a small list of items that could be looked at that are sort of
3rd party
projects, should we attempt to collaborate on putting up a list
some place?

Robert Treat

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:22, Jim Nasby wrote:

If nothing else, any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
work for an entire summer.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
for this.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We
need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
a line!

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Aglio Database Solutions
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#9Jim Nasby
Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com
In reply to: Nathan Buchanan (#3)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

From the main website, hit developers, roadmap and then the TODO
link on that page.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 1:44 PM, Nathan Buchanan wrote:

A list of simpler TODOs would be great. I might be interested in
doing something (probably w/o the summer of code because I have a
summer job). We'll see after exams finish.

Please post something about where we can find this TODO list when
it is available.

Thanks,
Nathan

On 4/5/06, Jim Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com> wrote: If nothing else,
any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
work for an entire summer.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
for this.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We
need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
a line!

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Aglio Database Solutions
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#10The Hermit Hacker
scrappy@hub.org
In reply to: Jim Nasby (#8)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:

One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS projects
that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students work on
those...

As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with
those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of
having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the
Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be
committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather
see it done for projects that wanted the end results ...

As for finding students, I believe a call on -general and -announce would
probably produce results. I know there's some professors on the lists (most
likely to be on -general...)

On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:35 PM, Robert Treat wrote:

Summer of Code projects dont have to revolve around the core project... for
example drupal got like 11 projects last year and bricolage got a few too;
I
got a small list of items that could be looked at that are sort of 3rd
party
projects, should we attempt to collaborate on putting up a list some place?

Robert Treat

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 11:22, Jim Nasby wrote:

If nothing else, any of the 'beginner todo' items are likely
candidates, though I suspect none of them individually are enough
work for an entire summer.

If no one beats me to it, I'll try and compile a list of likely TODOs
for this.

On Apr 5, 2006, at 12:16 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:

Folks,

I've been warned that Summer of Code is coming up again soon. We
need to be
ready with proposals which are officially endorsed by the
PostgreSQL project.
Which means we need:

a) Projects which could be accomplished in a summer, and
b) Students to do them.

We have one or two weeks to get this together. Your help is greatly
desired .. and if you're a CS student hacker reading this, drop me
a line!

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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#11Qingqing Zhou
zhouqq@cs.toronto.edu
In reply to: Josh Berkus (#1)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

"Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote

Sure, although the important part is to find students. I'm not sure how

we

do that.

I noticed two email domains are @mit.edu and @cs.toronto.edu but I am afraid
both of them are not students any more :-)

Regards,
Qingqing

#12Jim Nasby
Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com
In reply to: The Hermit Hacker (#10)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:

One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS
projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students
work on those...

As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with
those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of
having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the
Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be
committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather
see it done for projects that wanted the end results ...

Absolutely, though we can't do that without a list of possibilities
first. People want to start throwing out names? (I can't really think of
any off the top of my head, other than OpenQRM, but I have ulterior
motives for that one so perhaps my vote shouldn't count. :) )
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#13Patrick Welche
prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk
In reply to: Jim Nasby (#12)
Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:31:01AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:

One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS
projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students
work on those...

As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with
those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of
having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the
Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be
committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather
see it done for projects that wanted the end results ...

Absolutely, though we can't do that without a list of possibilities
first. People want to start throwing out names? (I can't really think of
any off the top of my head, other than OpenQRM, but I have ulterior
motives for that one so perhaps my vote shouldn't count. :) )

Was that throw out names for projects? How about Postgres-R for PostgreSQL-8?
Even if nothing comes out of it, both databases and group communications
are excellent CS topics for a student.

Cheers,

Patrick