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1 DE-MYSTIFYING DE-MYSTIFYING CONTRIBUTING TO CONTRIBUTING TO POSTGRESQL POSTGRESQL FOSDEM FOSDEM Lætitia AVROT Loxodata

2 WHO Lætitia Avrot PostgreSQL consultant and teacher DBA PostgreSQL for more than 10 years (and also Oracle and SQL Server)

3 Company built on 3 essential pillars PostgreSQL DevOps Cloud

4 WHAT Contributing to PostgreSQL The PostgreSQL community The PostgreSQL projects and tools The story of my patch How you can help

5 THE COMMUNITY THE COMMUNITY

16 The core team 5 members Independant Act as project managers

17 Committers More or less 15 members Have git push permissions Responsible for code quality

18 Developpers C code Need to comply with Need to comment (a lot) (really, I'm serious) style guide

19 Reviewers No need to be a dev But technical background needed If you don't understand it, others won't

20 Translators No need to be a dev Software messages Documentation Others (press releases...)

21 Advocacy Promote PostgreSQL use Share informations about PostgreSQL Regional press contacts

22 Associations Small to large groups of users National or international

23 Local User Groups and Meetups User gathering Sharing thoughts, use cases, issues...

24 PROJECTS PROJECTS

32 The road map 1 major release per year 1 minor release per quarter (minimum)

33 Commitfests 1 month long When most patches are commited Needs a commitfest Manager commitfest.postgresql.org

34 TOOLS TOOLS

Websites www.postgresql.org wiki.postgresql.org www.

35 Websites wiki.postgresql.org planet.postgresql.org

36 Mailing-lists Bug submission (use the form) Security issues : security@postgresql.org pgsql-novice for newcommers Special lists for associations and local groups pgsql-hackers (be carefull, these guys are SO chatty)

37 IRC Chanel #postgresql on irc.freenode.net Live chat with other PostgreSQL users Don't ask to ask, just ask!

38 Twitter Stay in touch with other PostgreSQL users Brand new community account

39 Other ways to stay in touch Postgres Postgres Forums (as ) Slack hangout stackexchange

40 Git if you don't know git, don't be afraid git clone git pull (--rebase) git diff Use the PostgreSQL Wiki page

41 MY FIRST PATCH MY FIRST PATCH

42 What's a patch? A patch is a piece of software designed to update a computer program or its supporting data, to x or improve it. Source : Wikipedia

43 My story Missing section in ALTER TABLE documentation Discussion with peers Bug reporting Patch creation with guru mentors Patch submission

44 Creating the patch PostgreSQL git clone Building from source code Building documentation from source code Copy/Paste missing section from CREATE TABLE to ALTER TABLE Re-building documentation from source code

45 git diff With context Use the wiki page Creating clean patches Format your git diff output

46 But sometimes, even the best men don't follow instructions...

47 git diff without context to the left, git diff with context to the right

48 My submission Use the Wiki page Submitting a patch

49 The result

50 Patch corrected

51 Commit fest

52 Oh no!

53 And another section was missing!

54 It's ready!

55 And it's committed!

56 ... Now I can die without regret!

57 What next? Correcting some spelling errors in french translation Studying the code Observing revewing in January Commit fest Proposed conf talks (and got accepted each time for now)

58 HOW YOU CAN HELP HOW YOU CAN HELP

59 Simple contributor use PostgreSQL share your experience answer other users' questions

60 Great Contributor Create/help organizing user group/meetup Create/help organizing event Invest time/money in PostgreSQL Associations

61 Super Contributor Report bugs Create patches Review patches

62 CONCLUSION CONCLUSION

63 It's all about you You're already contributing So, next step?

65 Please join us!

QUESTIONS? The end We're hiring! recrutement@loxodata.

66 QUESTIONS? The end We're hiring! Thanks to Dimitri, Greg, Vik, Robert and Alvaro for your patience and time Thanks to Frits Ahlefeldt, Freepik, Grzm, Alvaro Herrera, Pixabay and Xkcd.com for illustrations and photos

POSTGRESQL PROJECT ITS ORGANIZATION, ITS CONTRIBUTORS

POSTGRESQL PROJECT ITS ORGANIZATION, ITS CONTRIBUTORS Written by Guillaume Lelarge / @g_lelarge AUTHOR Author: Guillaume Lelarge major contributor ex - pgadmin dev french translator of the PostgreSQL manual