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22title : " Beyond the Patch: Continuing our LFX Mentorship"
3- date : 2025-08-12
3+ date : 2025-08-14
44draft : false
55image :
66 url : patch.png
@@ -26,18 +26,24 @@ Curious about our work with [Ying](https://cloudnative-pg.io/blog/contributor-hi
2626
2727Ying Zhu ([ EdwinaZhu] ( https://github.com/EdwinaZhu ) on GitHub), a student at Carnegie Mellon University, was
2828immediately drawn to CloudNativePG when she was looking for CNCF (Cloud Native
29- Computing Foundation) projects to contribute to- since she’s already involved in
29+ Computing Foundation) projects to contribute to, since she’s already involved in
3030the PostgreSQL _ and_ Kubernetes communities.
3131
32- Ying worked on implementing “Declarative Management of PostgreSQL Foreign Data
33- Wrappers”. The project aimed to extend the CloudNativePG operator to support
32+ Ying worked on implementing [ “Declarative Management of PostgreSQL Foreign Data
33+ Wrappers”] ( https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/issues/8063 ) . The project aimed to extend the CloudNativePG operator to support
3434declarative configuration of foreign data wrappers through its Database custom
3535resource.
3636
3737## On mentoring
3838
39- Four CloudNativePG maintainers—Gabriele Bartolini, Leonardo Cecchi, Marco
40- Nenciarini, and Armando Ruocco—supported Ying in her journey.
39+ Four CloudNativePG maintainers, Gabriele Bartolini, Leonardo Cecchi, Marco
40+ Nenciarini, and Armando Ruocco, supported Ying in her journey.
41+
42+ Gabriele shares how Ying worked hard, studied diligently, sought feedback,
43+ and grew visibly throughout the program. "Her curiosity, passion, and initiative
44+ stood out, and I hope that the the psychologically safe environment we tried to
45+ created played a key role in her progress." Gabriele is confident Ying will
46+ continue to make valuable contributions to the project and the wider community.
4147
4248Reflecting on the collaboration, Leonardo said:
4349
@@ -68,4 +74,4 @@ project (which ends on Aug 29) to its next phase, focusing on foreign servers
6874with issue [[ Feature] : Declarative support for foreign servers #8063 ] ( https://github.com/cloudnative-pg/cloudnative-pg/issues/8063 ) ,
6975which will presumably enter 1.28 too.
7076
71- More to come!
77+ More to come!
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