Welcome new GSoC 2025 contributors!
I’m pleased to welcome seven new Google Summer of Code 2025 contributors to the Postgres community!
I encourage you to welcome contributors during these first weeks to get them excited and invested in our community. You will meet them on mailing lists, Slack, Discord, and other media.
The table below details information about this year’s project, contributors, and mentors!
| Project Title | Contributor | Assigned Mentors |
|---|---|---|
| Enhancements to pgwatch v3 RPC integration | Ahmad Gouda | Akshat Jaimini, Pavlo Golub |
| pgmoneta: Incremental backup for PostgreSQL 13-16 | Ashutosh Sh | Haoran Zhang, Jesper Pedersen |
| Extension Support for pgexporter | Bassam Adnan | Saurav Pal, Jesper Pedersen |
| Upgrade pgwatch Grafana dashboards to v11 | Gaurav Patidar | Rajiv Harlalka, Pavlo Golub |
| ABI Compliance Checker | Mankirat Singh | David Wheeler, Pavlo Golub |
| pgmoneta: WAL Filtering | Mohab Yasser | Shahryar Soltanpour, Jesper Pedersen |
| Enhancing Pgagroal Security | Tejas Tyagi | Luca Ferrari, Jesper Pedersen |
We expect GSoC contributors to actively participate in the Community Bonding period from May 8th to June 1st. This period’s goal is to prepare contributors to begin their project work effectively on June 2nd. So please help them accommodate.
It was an insane start to the year! The GSoC program had the highest number of proposals ever, as well as the highest number of spam and AI-generated applications. Due to the high volume of new organizations and applications for the first time, on my memory, the PostgreSQL organization got only seven project slots out of 9!
This year, there were 213 total applications to PostgreSQL org only (sic!), the highest number we’ve had in 21 years of #GSoC! I really appreciate the hard work of our mentors, especially those whose projects weren’t accepted this year. Also, I am glad and proud at the same time because several of this year’s mentors are GSoC alumni of previous years! Kudos to everyone and all of us!
At the same time, I’m thankful to all the applicants who have spent their precious time! Please remember that despite not being part of the GSoC program this year, you are more than welcome in the PostgreSQL community! As a community, we will do our best to help you become a part of it.