My name is Shiv and I will be the student working on pgtune. I am still in the process of reading the documentation and digesting it. But I thought I should introduce myself to you first!
I was looking at the Finish JSON data type work, but as I check the achieved mail. It seems it already has 4 proposals. So I don't know whether it still needs help. And I'm interested in the Improve the auto-configuration script (Python or Perl). But I don't know much about Python or Perl yet. How could I get the further idea of what this auto-configuration script is about?
Have a look at that. I am not sure what the current list of TODOs is for it
Documented in https://github.com/gregs1104/pgtune/blob/master/TODO ; a little cryptic, but in several cases the relevant code has comments about the details too. It's in Python because all previous attempts to do this were in Perl and never got to where they worked. I'm not going to claim those two facts are correlated, but now that pgtune is shipping in Debian I have some satisfaction that I didn't make a completely wrong choice.
The remaining work is all easy, but extremely boring and provides little satisfaction for the time spent on it. Completely feasible for a student project, perfect way to get your hands dirty doing what real development requires. But since it's not the sort of sexy auto-tuning work people think it is I don't expect to ever get anyone interested in it. What's left is boring old-people coding; I did all the fun stuff already.