GSoC 2022 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

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/