I've just subscribed to this mailing list, so I thought it would be nice to introduce myself. I'm Bert Desmet, and I currently live in Belgium. I work for Deloitte, where we are building a cloud BI platform. As a database for the datawarehouses we use PostgreSQL since a few months. Before that time we were using db2. Next to THE dba (yes, it's only for the moment), I'm also playing with the linux servers, and I do code a bit. Mostly in Python or bash.
I used to do community work for the fedora project, but since I changed from a contributor to a normal user I decided to pick up a new challenge: coding.
Since I use postgres every day this is also the product I want to code on.
But I realise every begin is difficult. I can't just dive into a big project like postgres.
So I'll just monitor the mailing list a bit, pick some patches and test them. I think this is the best way to learn to know the code, and is probably helpful for everyone?
anyway, I hope I can grow to become a valuable contributor. But that won't happen overnight! :-)
