On 11 May 2016 at 22:20, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > I am giving a keynote at an IEEE database conference in Helsinki next > week (http://icde2016.fi/). (Yes, I am not attending PGCon Ottawa > because I accepted the Helsinki conference invitation before the PGCon > Ottawa date was changed from June to May). > > As part of the keynote, I would like to mention areas where academia can > help us. The topics I can think of are: >
[snip] > > Any others? > When publishing work, publish source code somewhere stable that won't just vanish. And build on the latest stable release, don't build your prototype on Pg 8.0. Don't just publish a tarball with no information about what revision it's based on, publish a git tree or a patch series. While academic prototype source is rarely usable directly, it can serve a valuable role with helping to understand the changes that were made, reproducing results, exploring further related work, etc Include your dummy data or data generators, setup scripts, etc. -- Craig Ringer http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Training & Services
