Thread: Contribute to the development of PostgreSQL

Dear Folks,

Sometime ago I posted a message regarding learning to develop and
contribute to the development of PostgreSQL. I started my journey with
downloading the sources and take a look at the bits and pieces of the
code. As I was expecting it to be, my journey was and still is ponderous
one. I can image the same for other newbie’s like myself and the fact that
some like myself come from a windows development world than *nix.

Therefore I was thinking to build a website concerning a "how to
contribute and develop to PostgreSQL".

The idea is to show the following:

1.         How to configure the compiler tools for windows and *nix
2.         How to make changes, compile and debug
3.         Where to start the learning curve in the source code.
4.         If requested by any to document the code as I advance.
5.         etc.. etc..

I would like to hear your opinion and whether anyone is interested in
helping.

Regards,
Gevik.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> gevik@xs4all.nl
> Sent: 04 November 2004 10:27
> To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
> Subject: [HACKERS] Contribute to the development of PostgreSQL
>
> Dear Folks,
>
> Sometime ago I posted a message regarding learning to develop
> and contribute to the development of PostgreSQL. I started my
> journey with downloading the sources and take a look at the
> bits and pieces of the code. As I was expecting it to be, my
> journey was and still is ponderous one. I can image the same
> for other newbie's like myself and the fact that some like
> myself come from a windows development world than *nix.
>
> Therefore I was thinking to build a website concerning a "how
> to contribute and develop to PostgreSQL".
>
> The idea is to show the following:
>
> 1.         How to configure the compiler tools for windows and *nix
> 2.         How to make changes, compile and debug
> 3.         Where to start the learning curve in the source code.
> 4.         If requested by any to document the code as I advance.
> 5.         etc.. etc..
>
> I would like to hear your opinion and whether anyone is
> interested in helping.

Hi Gevik,

That sort of detail belongs on the developers website
developer.postgresql.org. I believe Devrim Gunduz was going to look at
updating that site - perhaps you could help him out. The list for that
sort of task is pgsql-www@postgresql.org.

Regards, Dave.

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 11:26:41AM +0100, gevik@xs4all.nl wrote:
> 
> I would like to hear your opinion and whether anyone is interested in
> helping.

I'd appreciate any kind of hints, helping me to understand the
modules/components and sources of each.

Regards,
Yann