Re: Online course for those who want tot contribute

Cutting ties by my own interest: I want better Postgres. I want to teach
those who probably will push patches.
Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

четверг, 6 октября 2016 г. пользователь Joshua D. Drake написал:

> On 10/06/2016 10:39 AM, Andrew Borodin wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> From time to time I teach at Ural Federal University. Currently
>> university wants me to make up online course. They are going to put it
>> to platform like edX or something.
>>
>> I do not want to do another general programming course, so I made up
>> my mind to do a “postgres-hacker” course. But according to my research
>> topic course must be related to access methods, this is one of
>> requirements from university.
>>
>> I need to compose list of homeworks related to usual skills necessary
>> for a hacker.
>>
>> I’m going to put on the list training on building from source, testing
>> and reviewing patches, reading mailing lists.
>>
>> How do you think, what skills are most important for someone who wants
>> to contribute to PostgreSQL? How they can be converted to homework
>> task? What homework tasks do you see useful in spite of AM accent?
>> M.B. Like track and fix a bug in a specific patch?
>>
>>
> There are two types of hackers within this community:
>
> Hacking internals (similar to Linux Kernel)
> Hacking Generalist (Working around PG's limitations)
>
> The first one would be more beneficial for the community but the second
> would be more beneficial for someone using something like EdX.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> jD
>
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