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1. Interest in GSoC 2021 Projects

   Yixin Shi <esing@umich.edu> — 2021-02-26T07:56:17Z

   Hi,
   
   
   
   I am Yixin Shi, a junior student majoring in Computer Science at University
   of Michigan. I notice that the project ideas for GSoC 2021 have been posted
   on your webpage and I am quite interested in two of them. I really wish to
   take part in the project *Make plsample a more complete procedural language
   handler example (2021)* considering both my interest and ability. The
   potential mentor for this Project is *Mark Wong*. I am also interested in
   the project *Improve PostgreSQL Regression Test Coverage (2021)* and the
   potential mentor is *Andreas Scherbaum* and *Stephen Frost*.
   
   
   
   I would like to learn more about these two projects but failed to contact
   the mentors. How can I contact them? Also, I really hope to join the
   project. Are there any suggestions on application?
   
   
   
   Best wishes,
   
   
   
   Yixin Shi
   

2. Re: Interest in GSoC 2021 Projects

   Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> — 2021-02-26T18:11:46Z

   Greetings!
   
   * Yixin Shi (esing@umich.edu) wrote:
   > I am Yixin Shi, a junior student majoring in Computer Science at University
   > of Michigan. I notice that the project ideas for GSoC 2021 have been posted
   > on your webpage and I am quite interested in two of them. I really wish to
   > take part in the project *Make plsample a more complete procedural language
   > handler example (2021)* considering both my interest and ability. The
   > potential mentor for this Project is *Mark Wong*. I am also interested in
   > the project *Improve PostgreSQL Regression Test Coverage (2021)* and the
   > potential mentor is *Andreas Scherbaum* and *Stephen Frost*.
   > 
   > I would like to learn more about these two projects but failed to contact
   > the mentors. How can I contact them? Also, I really hope to join the
   > project. Are there any suggestions on application?
   
   Glad to hear you're interested- I'm one of the mentors you mention.
   
   You've found me, but I do want to point out that I'm also listed with my
   email address at: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC ; the top-level
   PostgreSQL GSoC page (I've also added a link to that from the GSoC 2021
   project ideas page).
   
   Note that PostgreSQL hasn't yet been formally accepted into the
   GSoC 2021 program.  Google has said they intend to announce the chosen
   organizations on March 9th.  Of course, you're welcome to start working
   on your application even ahead of that date if you wish to do so.
   
   Google provides a lot of useful information for prospective students
   here: https://google.github.io/gsocguides/student/ including a lot of
   information about how to write a solid proposal.  For the regression
   test coverage, the first step would be to review, as suggested in the
   project idea, the current state of coverage which you can see here:
   https://coverage.postgresql.org/  You'd also want to pull PG down and
   make sure that you have an environment where you can build PG and run
   the regression tests and build the coverage report yourself.  With that
   done, you can consider what areas you'd like to tackle, perhaps starting
   out with some of the simpler cases such as extensions that maybe don't
   have any test coverage today, or the various tools which have zero or
   very little.
   
   I've also CC'd Mark so he can provide some comments regarding plsample.
   
   Thanks,
   
   Stephen
   

3. Re: Interest in GSoC 2021 Projects

   Mark Wong <markwkm@gmail.com> — 2021-02-27T00:58:42Z

   Hi,
   
   On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 03:56:17PM +0800, Yixin Shi wrote:
   > Hi,
   > 
   > 
   > 
   > I am Yixin Shi, a junior student majoring in Computer Science at University
   > of Michigan. I notice that the project ideas for GSoC 2021 have been posted
   > on your webpage and I am quite interested in two of them. I really wish to
   > take part in the project *Make plsample a more complete procedural language
   > handler example (2021)* considering both my interest and ability. The
   > potential mentor for this Project is *Mark Wong*. I am also interested in
   > the project *Improve PostgreSQL Regression Test Coverage (2021)* and the
   > potential mentor is *Andreas Scherbaum* and *Stephen Frost*.
   > 
   > 
   > 
   > I would like to learn more about these two projects but failed to contact
   > the mentors. How can I contact them? Also, I really hope to join the
   > project. Are there any suggestions on application?
   
   The idea for plsample is to continue providing working code and
   documentation examples so that plsample can be used as a template for
   creating additional language handlers.
   
   Depending on the individual's comfort level, some effort may need to be
   put into studying the current handlers for ideas on how to implement the
   lacking functionality in plsample.
   
   Does that help?
   
   Regards,
   Mark