Re: call for applications: mentoring program for code contributors

Hi Robert,

I loved this initiative. Please allow me to introduce myself: I have been
using Postgres for 10 years both as a backend developer connecting to a
Postgres cluster, a DBA, and also I studied thoroughly the code of Postgres
and some plugins. I'm currently working on an ambitious plan to have
lock-free full vacuum and continuous ordering of a clustered index.
My first step in this effort is creating a DataGrip plugin that shows
various related stats and most importantly a visual view of the data pages
where we can see the ordering and fragmentation of the pages.
I do have the complete plan in my head and the DataGrip plugin itself is
50% done. However, having a mentor/partner would help a lot if that is a
possibility.

Regards,
Ahmed

On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 5:01 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've now sent acceptance and rejection emails to, I believe, all
> applicants. If you applied and didn't get an email, let me know.
>
> For those who may be interested in the statistics, I received 34
> applications. Although I initially anticipated being unable to accept
> more than 9, because we had 9 committers volunteer to mentor, it
> turned out that five of those committers ended up wanting to mentor
> two people each, so I ended up being able to send 14 acceptances. I'm
> fairly satisfied with that, especially because 12 or 13 of the people
> who were rejected have not, to the best of my ability to figure such
> things out, ever sent an email to the list. Of course, it would be
> nice to do better, but I feel like for the first time around, this
> went well.
>
> Let's see how things go from here!
>
> ...Robert
>
>
>