I created tickets for each idea: XMark: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VXQUERY-128 Hadoop: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VXQUERY-131 Indexing: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VXQUERY-32
Please update the tickets or let me know if something could be improved in the ticket's description. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Vassilis, > > Very nice! Of course we'll have to stick to the GSoC rules the selecting > the applicants. > If they are interested they might start off by reading the FAQ at > http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_ > program/google/gsoc2015/help_page to understand what the expectations are > and what the goals and criteria are. > > Cheers, > Till > > > On 27 Jan 2015, at 16:09, vassilis tsotras wrote: > > I agree these are all great ideas. I think the XMark Benchmark would be my >> first preference. >> I know some UCR students that may be interested in applying for these as >> GSOC. >> >> Vassilis >> >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Eldon Carman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wanted to get the ball started, so we could be ready for student >>> interaction. A few ideas are already in JIRA. I will add the missing >>> ones. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Preston >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I agree, those all should be fun projects and helpful projects. >>>> >>>> The next steps for us be to add those projects to JIRA with a GSoC tag, >>>> >>> as >>> >>>> that's where people will look for it. >>>> I think that we're still a little early, as the mentoring organizations >>>> will only be finalized in February. >>>> But I think that it's a safe bet that the ASF will be in and it's good >>>> to >>>> do the project descriptions now. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Till >>>> >>>> >>>> On 26 Jan 2015, at 20:32, Michael Carey wrote: >>>> >>>> Those all sound like excellent projects! >>>> >>>>> UCI is also running a summer intern program for selected foreign >>>>> undergrads. >>>>> That might be another source of help, especially for something like the >>>>> first project. >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Mike >>>>> >>>>> On 1/26/15 7:23 PM, Eldon Carman wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Google Summer of Code (GSOC) is just around the corner and I wanted to >>>>>> suggest a few ideas. >>>>>> >>>>>> - XMark Benchmark - VXQuery still needs more XQuery coverage to run >>>>>> all >>>>>> the >>>>>> XMark queries. >>>>>> - HDFS Support - Many organizations are saving data to HDFS and it >>>>>> >>>>> would >>> >>>> be >>>>>> great if VXQuery could read this data. In addition, the VXQuery >>>>>> cluster >>>>>> could even be managed by Yarn. >>>>>> - XML Indexing - Previous work was done on indexing XML, but the >>>>>> >>>>> project >>> >>>> was never fully integrated into VXQuery. It would be nice to fully >>>>>> integrate XML indexing into VXQuery. >>>>>> >>>>>> What are the next steps for us (VXQuery) to participate in GSOC? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>
