Re: Summer of Code Preparation

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:31:01AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote:
> > 
> > >One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS 
> > >projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students 
> > >work on those...
> > 
> > As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with 
> > those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of 
> > having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the 
> > Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be 
> > committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather 
> > see it done for projects that wanted the end results ...
> 
> Absolutely, though we can't do that without a list of possibilities
> first. People want to start throwing out names? (I can't really think of
> any off the top of my head, other than OpenQRM, but I have ulterior
> motives for that one so perhaps my vote shouldn't count. :) )

Was that throw out names for projects? How about Postgres-R for PostgreSQL-8?
Even if nothing comes out of it, both databases and group communications
are excellent CS topics for a student.

Cheers,

Patrick