Thread: Google Summer of Code: Potential Applicant

Hello Chris,

> I am sending this mail because I am in a need for some instructions on how
> to find a mentor and a project to work on.
>
> Can anyone help me with that? Also is there any potential mentor here?

Take a look on the list of our GSoC projects:

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2018

Which one you are most interested in?

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Hello everyone,

> > I am mostly interested in anything that requires C/C++ implementation and
> > AlgoDS.
> >
> > For that reason I would love to work in any of the following (in that
> > order of preference):
> >
> >    1. Sorting algorithms benchmark and implementation
> >    2. Enhancing amcheck for all AMs
> >    3. TOAST'ing in slices
> >    4. Thrift datatype support
> >
> Having recently worked with Thrift, I recommend ... don't use Thrift. The
> library is awkward to work with, it isn't very source-compatible across
> versions.
>
> Consider protobuf instead.

Craig, I believe you probably did something wrong if you had to work
with some library directly. Actually you generate classes from text
description and just use them. I worked with Thrift some time ago, in
2015 [1]. I wouldn't call it awkward. Protobuf is fine too, but
unfortunately we don't have any Protobuf-related projects this time.
Also it's probably worth noticing that the GSoC project doesn't imply
using any existing libraries, only the binary format which is quite
stable.

Christos, I appreciate your interest in the Thrift-related project. You
should know however that we already have a student interested in it [2].
Feel free to apply for it as well but in this case be prepared for a
little competition.

[1]:
https://github.com/afiskon/scala-thrift-example/blob/master/src/test/scala/me/eax/examples/thrift/tests/BinaryProtocol.scala#L15
[2]: https://postgr.es/m/CA%2BSXE9sP1iHNp9_DFJzdbE0cszAA-QF8d-8GAUyoCA4q9KCsGw%40mail.gmail.com

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Hello Christos,

> Do you have any project related insights as to what I should put in
> there?

Nope :) I believe Andrey Borodin and Atri Sharma have (added to CC).

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev

Thanks, Aleksander!SP-

> 13 марта 2018 г., в 19:03, Aleksander Alekseev <a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru> написал(а):
>
>> Do you have any project related insights as to what I should put in
>> there?
>
Christos, as far as I remember, good proposal must have schedule, implementation details and deliverables.
Also, it is good to show that you are capable of executing the project, like mentioning your previous project (no
mattercommercial, educational or pet projects), achievements etc. 
GSoC typically have 3 milestones, usually this milestones must have some viable results.
There are exact dates, but here I'll put a sketch.
Algorithms. June - implement introsort and timsort, July - design benchmarks, implement some other hashtables, August -
ifbenchmarks are successful, then propose patch to commitfest and review others patches from commitfest, else implement
morealgorithms. 
amcheck. June - implement checks for Gin (like b-tree in b-tree, resembles existing amcheck), July - checks for Hash,
BRINand SP-GiST, August - RUM, patch, commitfest, reviews. 

Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

Greetings,

* Aleksander Alekseev (a.alekseev@postgrespro.ru) wrote:
> Craig, I believe you probably did something wrong if you had to work
> with some library directly. Actually you generate classes from text
> description and just use them. I worked with Thrift some time ago, in
> 2015 [1]. I wouldn't call it awkward. Protobuf is fine too, but
> unfortunately we don't have any Protobuf-related projects this time.

Just to be clear, the list on the wiki is just a set of suggestions-
students are welcome to propose their own projects as well.

> Also it's probably worth noticing that the GSoC project doesn't imply
> using any existing libraries, only the binary format which is quite
> stable.

A student proposal should really include information about what other
libraries, if any, are being considered for the project as that will
play into the consideration as to if it's something we would be
interested in including in PG or not.

Thanks!

Stephen

Hello Stephen,

> > Protobuf is fine too, but unfortunately we don't have any
> > Protobuf-related projects this time.
>
> Just to be clear, the list on the wiki is just a set of suggestions-
> students are welcome to propose their own projects as well.

Oh, I didn't know that. In this case I will be happy to see any sorts of
projects related to Protobuf or any other binary format - Thrift, Avro,
Cap'n'Proto, MessagePack, etc!

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Best regards,
Aleksander Alekseev