GSoC 2010

Projects

The GSoC projects accepted for 2010 are:

• Improve phpPgAdmin ergonomy by Leonardo Augusto Sápiras (blog)
• Add MERGE command by Boxuan Zhai
• Database Designer for pgAdmin by luis ochoa
• Materialized Views by Pavel Baros
• Database Schema Difference Visualizer by adeel khan
• Add JSON datatype by Joseph Adams

We are also working on a twitter list for those involved this year. If you are missing, please send us your info:

Key Info

• March 8th - 12th, Mentoring Application Due
• March 29th - April 9th, Student Applications Due

• GSOC 2010 Home page
• GSOC 2010 FAQ
• Postgres GSOC Page, Needs Updating!
• Twitter stream of mentors and students

Project Admins

• Robert Treat - Past mentor 2x, co-admin, Mentor Summit attendee.
• Selena Deckelmann - Co-admin, Mentor Summit attendee.

2010 Mentors

• Dave Page - Former mentor - pgAdmin, Windows, Packaging, Infrastructure
• Robert Haas - CommitFest Manager
• Heikki Linnakangas - Postgres Committer
• Magnus Hagander - Postgres Committer, Windows, pgAdmin
• Guillaume Lelarge - pgAdmin
• Jehan-Guillaume de Rorthais - phpPgAdmin

additional reviewers

• Josh Berkus - auto-configuration, performance testing
• Andreas Scherbaum - performance, ddl, configuration

Past Success

• Florian - read-only on snapshots, no advancement of xid on select statements
• Ivan - Full-Text Support in phpPgAdmin
• Mickael Deloison - pgScript engine for pgAdmin
• Luis Alberto Ochoa Paz - Graphical query builder for pgAdmin

more?

GOALS:

• usable code
  • useful/novel ideas
  • research projects

• longer term contributors

TODOs:

• Kick-off Meeting for Community Members
• Update GSOC page
• Advertising?
• Blog that we're participating and seeking students
• Round of private emails to people who have participated in the past: Heikki, Simon, Mark,
  • request interest, and then follow up in asking about possible topics for students
• Mentor recruitment and then email to -hackers
  • do this much later when we have some proposals in?

• Recruitment -- no organized group effort?
  • -announce, -general, -hackers
  • user group lists
  • phppgadmin/pgadmin
  • berkeley
  • Univ. of Maryland -- contact them?

• Identify the commitfest that the code will be submitted to

Expectations

• Stuff to keep students together:
  • Regular blogging from students
  • weekly group IRC checkin? -- two checkin times maybe?

• Have students communicate on -hackers where appropriate (didn't really work?)
  • Or other relevant -devel lists

• Mailing list
  • pgsql-students (?) vs. -hackers (?) maybe up to mentor?
  • mentors mailing list -admin mailing list, berkus said?
  • students mailing list via gsoc