On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Dimitri Fontaine <dfontaine@hi-media.com> wrote:
> I guess a GSoC of reasonable size would be to define a spec for how to
> implement partitioning in PostgreSQL with a sound and accepted proposal
> on independent steps to contribute separately, in order to reach the
> full implementation in an incremental fashion and by different hackers.
>
> Then you could pick up one of those items. By then I mean after the
> summary and the plan both have been accepted by core people and by
> contributors who said in the past they wanted to spend precious hours on
> the topic.
>
> But I don't know if a GSoC can be completed without even coding.
According to the link below, GSoC proposals for documentation aren't
accepted. This probably extends to other non-coding work as well.
http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs#doc_proposals