Thread: Contribute to the development of PostgreSQL

<div class="Section1"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Dear Folks,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">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
wasexpecting it to be, my journey was and still is ponderous one. I can image the same for other newbie’s like myself
andthe fact that some like myself come from a windows development world than *nix.</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">Therefore I was thinking to build a website concerning a "how to contribute and develop to
PostgreSQL".</span></font><pclass="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">The idea is to show the following:</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">1.         How to configure the compiler tools for windows and *nix </span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">2.         How to make changes, compile and debug </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font
face="Arial"size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">3.         Where to start the learning curve in the source code.</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">4.         If requested by any to document the code as I advance.</span></font><p
class="MsoNormal"><fontface="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 
font-family:Arial">5.         etc.. etc..</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I would like to hear your opinion and whether anyone is interested in helping.</span></font><p
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font-family:Arial"> </span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="NL"
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font-family:Arial">Regards,</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="NL"
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font-family:Arial">Gevik.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="NL"
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I suggest that you document your journey as you go, possibly in a blog 
or something similar, and meanwhile actually get down to contributing. I 
know from experience that you will find things look very different once 
you start getting down and dirty with the code. Oncwe you have that all 
captured, you can go back and put your website together. At least, 
that's how I'd do it if I had time and it weren't too late :-)

cheers

andrew

Gevik Babakhani wrote:

> 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.
>