Re: GSoC 2018

Hi,

2017-12-15 4:14 GMT+01:00 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:
> Unsurprisingly, we'll need to have an Ideas page again, so I've gone
> ahead and created one (copying last year's):

What about adding "Learned Index" as project task [*]?
This type of index looks promising for certain properties.

:Stefan

[*] "The Case for Learned Index Structures" Kraska et al. (Dec 2017)
https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01208

2017-12-15 4:14 GMT+01:00 Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>:
> Greetings -hackers,
>
> Google Summer of Code 2018 was announced back in September and they've
> changed up the timeline a bit [1]. Specifically, they moved up the
> dates for things like the mentoring organization application deadline,
> so it's time to start working on our Idea's page for 2018 in earnest.
>
> The deadline for Mentoring organizations to apply is: January 23.
>
> The list of accepted organization will be published around February 12.
>
> 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_2018
>
> Google discusses what makes a good "Ideas" list here:
>
> https://google.github.io/gsocguides/mentor/defining-a-project-ideas-list.html
>
> I marked all the entries with '2017' to indicate they were pulled from
> last year. If the project from last year is still relevant, please
> update it to be '2018' 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).
>
> New entries are certainly welcome and encouraged, just be sure to note
> them as '2018' when you add it.
>
> 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 '2018'.
>
> When we get closer to actually submitting our application, I'll clean
> out the '2017' entries that didn't get any updates.
>
> 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 (remember, these are
> 12-week projects)
> - Description of programming skills needed and estimation of the
> difficulty level
> - 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 [2] is likely to be acceptable as a
> PostgreSQL GSoC project.
>
> In other words, if you're a contributor or developer on barman,
> pgBackRest, the PostgreSQL website (pgweb), the PgEU/PgUS website code
> (pgeu-website), pgAdmin4, PostgresXL, pgbouncer, Citus, 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!
>
> Stephen
>
> [1]: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
> [2]: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/NewsEventsApproval