On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 06:31:01AM -0500, Jim C. Nasby wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:55:15PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Jim Nasby wrote: > > > > >One idea that comes to mind is to come up with a list of popular OSS > > >projects that we'd like to see add PostgreSQL support and have students > > >work on those... > > > > As nice an idea as this is, we'd also need to quickly co-ordinate with > > those projects to make sure that there is a semblance of a chance of > > having those patches included in their distribution ... I realize that the > > Code of Summer program doesn't need a guarantee that the code will be > > committed, but if we're going to do something like the above, would rather > > see it done for projects that wanted the end results ... > > Absolutely, though we can't do that without a list of possibilities > first. People want to start throwing out names? (I can't really think of > any off the top of my head, other than OpenQRM, but I have ulterior > motives for that one so perhaps my vote shouldn't count. :) )
Was that throw out names for projects? How about Postgres-R for PostgreSQL-8? Even if nothing comes out of it, both databases and group communications are excellent CS topics for a student. Cheers, Patrick ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
