On 14 March 2017 at 17:20, Varun Thacker <va...@vthacker.in> wrote: > Hi Alexandre , > > I think its a great idea to have someone look into the usability part as a > GSOC project. > > However I feel we should define this task somewhat before people start > applying. The student should not get caught up in a Jira which is attracting > lots of discussions from the devs . This could be quite overwhelming to > someone new to the project. Would be very happy to do so, and it was part of the reason to start this email thread. What do you propose to do it well?
> >> looking at downstream Apache projects using Solr and helping them to move >> to Solr 6, things like that. > > I'm not sure how that would classify as a GSOC project under the Apache > Lucene Project? Well, it is ASF as a whole that is a mentor organization and the gsoc2017 label cuts across all the projects at once. So, a project that applies Solr expertise to other ASF projects is to me still within ASF-mentor space. And we may be able to draw some assistance from the other projects to it once it gets going. > Here are a few ideas which come to my head that a student could take on as a > project > > Improving the admin dashboard UI There is a couple of open JIRAs, yes. We could mark those with GSOC label. Completely new features might be nice too, but - as you said - we need to discuss this beforehand somehow. Part of the challenge is for mentor to know where the student should go. > Polishing all our APIs - We have Schema APIs / Config APIs and V2 APIs for > stuff like creating collections etc. - Can one take a basic configset and > recreate all the remaining configsets that we have in Solr using these APIs > ( example-DIH/* , films , techproducts ) . We would find gaps here which one > could work on That sounds really good. Regards, Alex. > > > On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> ASF is in the GSC this year again. They are now looking for >> committer-access mentors. The announcement went through the Apache >> Community list. >> >> I would like to mentor a student with focus on onboarding activities, >> maybe generating some better examples, looking at downstream Apache >> projects using Solr and helping them to move to Solr 6, things like >> that. >> >> Is that a good/bad idea? I know it is a burden time-wise, but I'll >> give it a try. Stack Overflow may suffer a bit during that period, but >> çe la vie :-) >> >> Any feedback would be welcome, this would be my first time as GSOC mentor. >> >> Regards, >> Alex. >> ---- >> http://www.solr-start.com/ - Resources for Solr users, new and experienced >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
