Re: How to get started with contribution

Thank you for your valuable guidance.
I will surely look at the links and if have any queries then I will contact
you.

regards
Vrund V Shah

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 2:23 AM Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> * Tomas Vondra (tomas(dot)vondra(at)enterprisedb(dot)com) wrote:
> > On 1/21/22 21:28, Stephen Frost wrote:
> > >* vrund v shah (vrund3008(at)gmail(dot)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
>