Re: GSoC 2022

On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 14:32, Ilaria Battiston <ilaria(dot)battiston(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Greetings -hackers,
>
> Our beloved Google Summer of Code is back for 2022! They have once again
> changed some of how GSoC is going to work for this year, for a variety
> of reasons, so please be sure to read this email and posts linked for
> the updates if you're interested! In short, this year both medium and
> large sized projects can be proposed, with more flexibility on end dates.
>
> Everyone interested in suggesting projects or mentoring should review
> the blog post here regarding the changes:
>
>
> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2021/11/expanding-google-summer-of-code-in-2022.html
>
> Now is the time to work on getting together a set of projects we'd like
> to have GSoC students work on over the summer. Similar to last year, we
> need to have a good set of projects for students to choose from in
> advance of the deadline for mentoring organizations.
>
> HOWEVER, as noted in the blog post above, project length expectations
> have changed. Please decide accordingly based on your requirements and
> availability! Also, there is going to be only one intermediate
> evaluation, similarly to last year.
>
> GSoC timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>
> One other thing to note is that anyone over the age of 18 will be
> eligible in 2022 in addition to students, broadening the pool of
> potential applicants and changing the terminology of applicants to
> "contributors".
>
> The deadline for Mentoring organizations to apply is: February 21. The
> list of accepted organization will be published around March 7.
>
> Unsurprisingly, we'll need to have an Ideas page again, so I've gone
> ahead and created one (copying last year's):
>
> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2022
>
> Google discusses what makes a good "Ideas" list here:
>
>
> https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html
>
> All the entries are marked with '2021' to indicate they were pulled from
> last year. If the project from last year is still relevant, please
> update it to be '2022' and make sure to update all of the information
> (in particular, make sure to list yourself as a mentor and remove the
> other mentors, as appropriate). Please also be sure to update the
> project's scope to be appropriate for the new guidelines.
>
> New entries are certainly welcome and encouraged, just be sure to note
> them as '2022' when you add them. Projects from last year which were
> worked on but have significant follow-on work to be completed are
> absolutely welcome as well - simply update the description appropriately
> and mark it as being for '2022'.
>
> When we get closer to actually submitting our application, I'll clean
> out the '2021' entries that didn't get any updates. Also - if there are
> any projects that are no longer appropriate (maybe they were completed,
> for example and no longer need work), please feel free to remove them.
> The page is still work in progress, so it's entirely possible I missed
> some updates where a GSoC project was completed independently of GSoC
> (and if I removed any that shouldn't have been - feel free to add them
> back by copying from the 2021 page).
>
> As a reminder, each idea on the page should be in the format that the
> other entries are in and should include:
>
> - Project title/one-line description
> - Brief, 2-5 sentence, description of the project
> - Description of programming skills needed and estimation of the
> difficulty level
> - Project size
> - List of potential mentors
> - Expected Outcomes
>
> As with last year, please consider PostgreSQL to be an "Umbrella"
> project and that anything which would be considered "PostgreSQL Family"
> per the News/Announce policy [1] is likely to be acceptable as a
> PostgreSQL GSoC project.
>
> In other words, if you're a contributor or developer on WAL-G, barman,
> pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL website (pgweb), the PgEU/PgUS website code
> (pgeu-system), pgAdmin4, pgbouncer, pldebugger, the PG RPMs (pgrpms),
> the JDBC driver, the ODBC driver, or any of the many other PG Family
> projects, please feel free to add a project for consideration! If we get
> quite a few, we can organize the page further based on which project or
> maybe what skills are needed or similar.
>
> Let's have another great year of GSoC with PostgreSQL!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ilaria & Stephen
>
> [1]: https://www.postgresql.org/about/policies/news-and-events/

I've added a project to improve the JDBC website

Thanks,

Dave