DBA looking to contribute

Josh Gray josgray at gmail.com
Wed Aug 31 14:59:27 UTC 2011


Thanks for the tip. I think I'll see if I can't find something to triage in
postgres

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:08 PM, David Henningsson <
david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:

> On 08/30/2011 09:44 PM, Josh Gray wrote:
>
>> In my professional life I am a Database Administrator. I'd like to
>> dedicate some time (8hrs a week maybe) to contributing to Ubuntu. I have
>> had some small amount of development experience in c++ and Java mainly
>> from College (5 years ago), and the odd "for fun" style project where
>> I'd pick up ruby/python/java for a week or so, then promptly loose
>> motivation and forget it.
>>
>> Suffice to say I am not going to be hacking device drivers or anything
>> cool like that, but I would like to find a way to contribute to Ubuntu
>> that uses my expertise in databases, and peaks my interest in programming.
>>
>> If you have any advice on how I could help, or what I should be doing
>> I'd love to hear it.
>>
>
> Hi Josh, and first and foremost, a warm welcome to Ubuntu! :-)
>
> If you want to make use of your expertise in databases, here are a few
> things you could do:
>
> 1) Go to answers.launchpad.net for your particular database, and look for
> questions that you could possibly answer.
>
> 2) You can also triage bugs for that database. (
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/**HowToTriage<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage>) Given you have some programming expertise, you might also be able to fix
> some of the bugs?
>
> 3) Make or improve Ensemble recipes for setting up your database easy in
> Ubuntu.( https://ensemble.ubuntu.com/ )
>
> Hopefully some of the above will fall into your taste :-)
>
> // David
>
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