Thank you so much for your answer, it provided a clearer understanding of the task and it was really useful to complete my proposal which I’ve now submitted. I really hope to keep on working with Postgres.
Best of luck to all GSoC students :) Ilaria > On 4 Apr 2019, at 18:59, Mark Wong <m...@2ndquadrant.com> wrote: > > Hi Ilaria, > > Edited for bottom posting. :) > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 03:01:05PM +0100, Ilaria wrote: >>> Am 29.03.2019 um 13:52 schrieb Peter Eisentraut >>> <peter.eisentr...@2ndquadrant.com>: >>> >>>> On 2019-03-29 13:04, Robert Haas wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 9:10 AM Ila B. <ilaria.battis...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> I am Ilaria Battiston, an aspiring GSoC student, and I would love to have >>>>> a feedback on the first draft of my Google Summer of Code proposal. The >>>>> project is "Develop Performance Farm Database and Website”. You can find >>>>> any other detail in the attached PDF file :) >>>> >>>> I think there's probably a very large amount of work to be done in >>>> this area. Nobody is going to finish it in a summer. Still, there's >>>> probably some useful things you could get done in a summer. I think a >>>> lot will depend on finding a good mentor who is familiar with these >>>> areas (which I am not). Has anyone expressed an interest? >>> >>> Moreover, I have a feeling that have been hearing about work on a >>> performance farm for many years. Perhaps it should be investigated what >>> became of that work and what the problems were getting it to a working >>> state. > >> Hello, >> >> Thanks for the answer. This project is on the official PostgreSQL project >> list of GSoC 2019, and potential mentors are stated there. >> >> I trust mentors’ judgement on outlining the work and the tasks to be done in >> three months, and there is the previous student’s work to use as example if >> needed. The project consists in building a database and a website on top of >> it for users to browse performance data. >> >> Let me know whether there are any specific issues you’re concerned about. > > Hongyuan, our student last summer, put together a summary of his > progress in a GitHub issue: > > https://github.com/PGPerfFarm/pgperffarm/issues/22 > > > We have systems for proofing (from OSUOSL) and you can also see the > prototype here: > > http://140.211.168.111/ > > > For Phase 1, I'd recommend getting familiar with the database schema in > place now. Perhaps it can use some tweaking, but I just mean to suggest > that it might not be necessary to rebuild it from scratch. > > In Phase 2, we had some difficulty last year about getting the > authentication/authorization completely integrated. I think the main > issue was how to integrate this app while using resources outside of the > community infrastructure. We may have to continue working around that. > > Otherwise, I think the rest make sense. Let us know if you have any > more questions. > > Regards, > Mark > > -- > Mark Wong > 2ndQuadrant - PostgreSQL Solutions for the Enterprise > https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
