Volunteering
Hello,
My name is Grant Fritchey. I'm very interested in contributing to the PostgreSQL project. However, I'm just a DBA, so I won't be writing a lot of code with the Hackers. However, I can write, so I'd be interested in volunteering with the documentation team. Could someone share the general duties & needs and just how I'd go about getting involved please?
Thanks,
Grant
On Fri, 2025-12-12 at 15:47 +0000, grant@scarydba.com wrote:
My name is Grant Fritchey. I'm very interested in contributing to the PostgreSQL project.
However, I'm just a DBA, so I won't be writing a lot of code with the Hackers.
However, I can write, so I'd be interested in volunteering with the documentation team.
Could someone share the general duties & needs and just how I'd go about getting involved please?
Welcome!
I'd start by reading appendix J of the documentation.
Set up a build environment for the documentation.
Even if you don't want to write source code, much of the information in
this article will still apply:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/So,_you_want_to_be_a_developer%3F
Get familiar with the commitfest app: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/
Patches that you want to be reviewed and committed should go there.
The best starting point might be to review some documentation patches
from the next commitfest.
I am not aware of a TODO list for the documentation, so if you don't
have your own ideas about improving the documentation, you can hang out
on the -docs mailing list and read the questions and complaints that
others have.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
Cheers!
Appreciate the info. I'll be reading and watching for the moment.
________________________________
From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2025 2:07 PM
To: grant@scarydba.com <grant@scarydba.com>; pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org <pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Volunteering
On Fri, 2025-12-12 at 15:47 +0000, grant@scarydba.com wrote:
My name is Grant Fritchey. I'm very interested in contributing to the PostgreSQL project.
However, I'm just a DBA, so I won't be writing a lot of code with the Hackers.
However, I can write, so I'd be interested in volunteering with the documentation team.
Could someone share the general duties & needs and just how I'd go about getting involved please?
Welcome!
I'd start by reading appendix J of the documentation.
Set up a build environment for the documentation.
Even if you don't want to write source code, much of the information in
this article will still apply:
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/So,_you_want_to_be_a_developer%3F
Get familiar with the commitfest app: https://commitfest.postgresql.org/
Patches that you want to be reviewed and committed should go there.
The best starting point might be to review some documentation patches
from the next commitfest.
I am not aware of a TODO list for the documentation, so if you don't
have your own ideas about improving the documentation, you can hang out
on the -docs mailing list and read the questions and complaints that
others have.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe