> > Incidentally I havent seen any objections, if there are none should we
> > go ahead and whip up an email to google? Do we want to run this through
> > the foundation? ISTM we would, though I don't know the full extent of
> > what ramifications that would have.
>
> No, the Foundation wasn't formed for this purpose, and doing something
> like this through there would end up taking longer then the deadline to
> pass through even if it was ...

I'm a bit surprised that it would seem inappropriate to run this through
the Foundation. There's not anyone else around, aside from the
individual Core folk as themselves, that would seem to be "legally
recognizable" for this sort of purpose.

> As for the mentoring program ... my read on it is that the developer
> has to make a proposal for what they wish to accomplish, that proposal
> goes to the mentoring organization who then approves or rejects the
> proposal ... the proposal, again, from my take, can't be simply
> tackling a few random issues, but is more meant to deal with large
> projects that would take someone full time to get done ... ie. the
> GiST rewrite or something of similar scale ...

In more or less retrospect, I don't think it's reasonable to try to push
significant work items through newcomer 'students.' With the one caveat
I can think of that Neil Conway is still working on his degree, so that
it's not inconceivable that he might qualify.

The problem is that it takes enough time up front to get familiar with
the code base that the "summer of code" might be eaten up just getting
vaguely familiar with things, and not produce any perceptible results.
Note that if "real work" could take place in the fall, this could be an
entirely productive use of a summer...
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
> One concern that was raised off of this list was the steep learning
> curve to start with, to get to the point of beign able to do anything ...
>
> Do we have any 'students' that are already up to speed, enough so that
> they'd be able to accomplish something significant over a 2-3 month period?
>
>

It depends on what you mean by "up to speed," but I'm a student.

I have a project that I was previously working on (Simon Riggs called it
"Sychronized Scanning," here's a link to my first post about it:
<http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2005-02/msg00832.php> ).
It seemed promising, but I didn't finish it because of time.

I would be interested in the Summer of Code thing, I'm well introduced
to PostgreSQL (been user and fairly active follower since before 7.0),
and I am capable with C.

I don't know what the expectations are, but if Google is interested in
PostgreSQL, I would certainly talk with any mentors about the potential
project, and what the scope would be.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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