All, Guys, thank you all for your advice! As a starting point I definitely should take a look at the current Commitfest and try to help in review as best I can. Thanks!
Regards, пн, 12 апр. 2021 г. в 16:38, Justin Pryzby <pry...@telsasoft.com>: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 03:21:41PM +0000, Ian Zagorskikh wrote: > > I would like to contribute my time and efforts to the PostgreSQL project > > development. I have some [hope not too bad] experience in software > > development primarily for Linux/BSD/Windows platforms with C/C++ though > > almost no experience in RDBMS internals. I have read the "Development > > Information" section in wiki and checked the official TODO list. It's > > really great but it's a bit huge and "all is so tasty" so I don't know > > where to start. Can you please advise me how to proceed? Maybe there are > > active tasks or bugs or issues that require man power? I would appreciate > > any advice or mentorship. Thank you! > > I think the best way is to start following this mailing list. > Since it's very "busy", it may be easier to follow the web archives. > https://www.postgresql.org/list/pgsql-hackers/2021-04/ > > When someone reports a problem, you can try to reproduce it to see if > they've > provided enough information to confirm the issue, or test any proposed > patch. > > You can see the patches being proposed for future release: > https://commitfest.postgresql.org/ > > However, right now, we've just passed the "feature freeze" for v14, so new > development is on hold for awhile. What's most useful is probably testing > the > changes that have been committed. You can check that everything works as > described, that the implemented behavior doesn't have any rough edges, > that the > features work together well, and work under your own use-cases/workloads. > > You can see a list of commits for v14 like so: > > git log --cherry-pick origin/REL_13_STABLE...origin/master > (Any commits that show up twice are also in v13, so aren't actually "new in > v14", but the patches differ so GIT couldn't figure that out) > > -- > Justin > -- Best Regards, Ian Zagorskikh
