[postgis-devel] GSoC winning Candidate: Implement sorting methods for PostGIS data types before building GiST index

[Han Wang]

Hi Regina and hi Giuseppe,

Thank both of you and the PostGIS team for picking me! And I am very happy
and excited to work with you. I will try my best to finish this project!

Best regards,
Han

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 3:52 AM Giuseppe Broccolo <g.broccolo.7 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Han,
>
> Welcome on board! Thanks in advance for all the help you'll be able to
> provide
> us. Can't wait to start working with you on this project.
>
> Giuseppe.
>
> Il giorno lun 17 mag 2021 alle ore 20:40 Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> ha
> scritto:
>
>> I'd like to congratulate Han on being picked for our only GSOC slot for
>> this
>> year.
>>
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2021-April/028857.html
>>
>> Han had already submitted a patch before he was picked and started
>> reviewing
>> our code and PostgreSQL code as well.
>>
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2021-April/028855.html
>>
>> This new feature will rely on GIST improvements coming in PostgreSQL 14.
>>
>>
>> We had several other good candidates but sadly only one slot and one
>> project
>> in mind.  Hopefully next year if we start earlier we can come up with more
>> ideas and perhaps get more people interested in mentoring.
>>
>> Han will primarily be working with Giuseppe Broccolo, but I'll take
>> responsibility of making sure the upgrade logic, testing logic, and any
>> addition in documentation is written to our standard. I will also take
>> responsibility of testing and  accepting pull requests.
>> I'll be asking others to criticize the code (Paul, Darafei, Raul  I'm
>> looking at you) as I think others are more familiar with this area than I
>> am.
>>
>> Welcome Han.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
>>
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