Re: Contribution to PostgreSQL - please give an advice

All,

Guys, thank you all for your advice! As a starting point I definitely
should take a look at the current Commitfest and try to help in review as
best I can. Thanks!

Regards,

пн, 12 апр. 2021 г. в 16:38, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 03:21:41PM +0000, Ian Zagorskikh wrote:
> > I would like to contribute my time and efforts to the PostgreSQL project
> > development. I have some [hope not too bad] experience in software
> > development primarily for Linux/BSD/Windows platforms with C/C++ though
> > almost no experience in RDBMS internals. I have read the "Development
> > Information" section in wiki and checked the official TODO list. It's
> > really great but it's a bit huge and "all is so tasty" so I don't know
> > where to start. Can you please advise me how to proceed? Maybe there are
> > active tasks or bugs or issues that require man power? I would appreciate
> > any advice or mentorship. Thank you!
>
> I think the best way is to start following this mailing list.
> Since it's very "busy", it may be easier to follow the web archives.
> https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-hackers/2021-04/
>
> When someone reports a problem, you can try to reproduce it to see if
> they've
> provided enough information to confirm the issue, or test any proposed
> patch.
>
> You can see the patches being proposed for future release:
> https://commitfest.postgresql.org/
>
> However, right now, we've just passed the "feature freeze" for v14, so new
> development is on hold for awhile. What's most useful is probably testing
> the
> changes that have been committed. You can check that everything works as
> described, that the implemented behavior doesn't have any rough edges,
> that the
> features work together well, and work under your own use-cases/workloads.
>
> You can see a list of commits for v14 like so:
> > git log --cherry-pick origin/REL_13_STABLE...origin/master
> (Any commits that show up twice are also in v13, so aren't actually "new in
> v14", but the patches differ so GIT couldn't figure that out)
>
> --
> Justin
>

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Best Regards,
Ian Zagorskikh