Thread: Re: How to get started with contribution

Greetings,

* vrund v shah (vrund3008@gmail.com) wrote:
>    I am Vrund V Shah, a computer science undergrad. I have just completed my
>    3^rd semester at G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology. I am new
>    to open source contribution but I am well aware of C/C++, SQL and I will
>    learn Python before the end of the first week of February. I would love to
>    contribute to your organization but don’t know how!!
>
>    Could you please guide me on how and from where to start?

I'd suggest you start with patch reviews if you're interested in working
on the core PostgreSQL server code.  Information on that is available
here:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch

Thanks,

Stephen

On 1/21/22 21:28, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> * vrund v shah (vrund3008@gmail.com) wrote:
>>     I am Vrund V Shah, a computer science undergrad. I have just completed my
>>     3^rd semester at G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology. I am new
>>     to open source contribution but I am well aware of C/C++, SQL and I will
>>     learn Python before the end of the first week of February. I would love to
>>     contribute to your organization but don’t know how!!
>>
>>     Could you please guide me on how and from where to start?
> 
> I'd suggest you start with patch reviews if you're interested in working
> on the core PostgreSQL server code.  Information on that is available
> here:
> 
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch
> 

Yeah, that's what I recommend people who ask me this question.

However, that wiki page is more about the process than about "what" to 
do, so my advice to the OP would be to first go to the current CF [1] 
and look for patches that would be genuinely useful for him/her (e.g. 
because of work). And do the review by following the wiki page.


regards

-- 
Tomas Vondra
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

Greetings,

* Tomas Vondra (tomas.vondra@enterprisedb.com) wrote:
> On 1/21/22 21:28, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >* vrund v shah (vrund3008@gmail.com) wrote:
> >>    I am Vrund V Shah, a computer science undergrad. I have just completed my
> >>    3^rd semester at G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology. I am new
> >>    to open source contribution but I am well aware of C/C++, SQL and I will
> >>    learn Python before the end of the first week of February. I would love to
> >>    contribute to your organization but don’t know how!!
> >>
> >>    Could you please guide me on how and from where to start?
> >
> >I'd suggest you start with patch reviews if you're interested in working
> >on the core PostgreSQL server code.  Information on that is available
> >here:
> >
> >https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Reviewing_a_Patch
> >
>
> Yeah, that's what I recommend people who ask me this question.
>
> However, that wiki page is more about the process than about "what" to do,
> so my advice to the OP would be to first go to the current CF [1] and look
> for patches that would be genuinely useful for him/her (e.g. because of
> work). And do the review by following the wiki page.

Yeah.  There's also this:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ

where the first topic is about getting involved in PG development, and
there's:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/So,_you_want_to_be_a_developer%3F

which covers a bit more about mailing lists and such.

Thanks,

Stephen

Greetings,

* vrund shah (vrund3008@gmail.com) wrote:
> Thank you for your valuable guidance.
> I will surely look at the links and if have any queries then I will contact
> you.

On these mailing lists, we prefer that you reply 'in-line', as I'm doing
here, and not use 'top-posting' (as you did in your replies).

* vrund shah (vrund3008@gmail.com) wrote:
> I am already using PostgreSQL for my college purpose and for learning SQL.
> I have learned SQL from udemy courses with instructor Jose Portilla. and I
> am well aware of PostgreSQL and PGAdmin.

Great.  Being familiar with SQL will certainly help.

* vrund shah (vrund3008@gmail.com) wrote:
> This year I am planning to take part in GSOC 2022 in the PostgreSQL
> organization.

Glad to hear that.  Note that while we do intend to submit for GSoC
2022, there's no guarantee that we will be selected.

That said, this is a great way to get started.  If you already have a
project idea in mind, I encourage you to post to this list what that
idea is and ask for feedback.  If you don't have a project idea already
then you could review the project ideas page:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2022

Note that the current page lists projects from last year and will
continue to be updated between now and the GSoC 2022 organization
submission deadline.  Still, hopefully reviewing the ones there will
give you some thoughts about what you might be interested in working on.

Thanks,

Stephen