Oystein Grovlen - Sun Norway: > I have added some more information for the LRU-based cache manager > project. I think several of the descriptions needs to be worked in > order to be made more attractive to students, but I guess that should be > the responsibility of the mentor.
Personally I think the LRU cache manager project looks interesting. It has quite well defined boundaries, and the potential to improve Derby's performance a bit if done right. I like that. =) <offtopic rant> As part of my computer science studies I'm planning to do a project on Derby's SMP scalability next semester. (Search for "SMP" in [1] for a description). The desire for a somewhat meaningful and interesting project task next year was one of my primary motivations for starting to play around with Derby. My girlfriend has now spent almost a year drawing boxes and arrows, modeling "distributed graphical user interfaces", and writing lots of text - but no code. I'd rather do something that can be more immediately useful - whether it is performance analysis or coding, I'd like to spend my time and energy working on something that could possibly be of use to somebody. =) That's why I started lurking on the email lists and hunting for trivial tasks in JIRA - to make myself more familiar with how Derby (the database _and_ the project) works. I've spent quite a few hours just browsing the code and trying to figure out how the different parts of Derby fit together and where the little change needed to fix a JIRA issue has to be made. =) Anyway, I'll probably have some free time this summer, and if the weather in Trondheim isn't great (it usually isn't =/) I'll probably end up hacking a little Derby and putting little diffs in JIRA every once in a while. The LRU cache manager project could be interesting even without Summer of Code incentives, but, of course, they don't hurt. Now, there are lots of student applying for SoC, and chances are I'm not going to be one of the "winners", but with some help from the experienced people on this list it could be a fun and challenging pastime anyway. =) [1]: http://www.idi.ntnu.no/undervisning/prosjektoppgaver.php?utvalg=fordypning -- Anders Morken My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right!
