Re: Academic help for Postgres

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 08:57:34AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 11 May 2016 at 22:20, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > I am giving a keynote at an IEEE database conference in Helsinki next
> > week (http://icde2016.fi/). (Yes, I am not attending PGCon Ottawa
> > because I accepted the Helsinki conference invitation before the PGCon
> > Ottawa date was changed from June to May).
> >
> > As part of the keynote, I would like to mention areas where academia can
> > help us. The topics I can think of are:
> >
> > Any others?
> >
>
> When publishing work, publish source code somewhere stable that won't just
> vanish. And build on the latest stable release, don't build your prototype
> on Pg 8.0. Don't just publish a tarball with no information about what
> revision it's based on, publish a git tree or a patch series.
>
> While academic prototype source is rarely usable directly, it can serve a
> valuable role with helping to understand the changes that were made,
> reproducing results, exploring further related work, etc
>
> Include your dummy data or data generators, setup scripts, etc.

That is all sound advise, but if they do all of the above, then they
should also make sure the source (or parts of it) is potentially usable
by the project, i.e. (joint?) PGDG copyright, if their academic
institution allows that.

Michael