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
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
