In other ASF Gsoc projects I have seen that regular rebasing from trunk is highly recommended especially when the project is good and intended to merge back to trunk
- Henry On Wednesday, July 18, 2012, Lewis John Mcgibbney <lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > Just a quick update on the progress of the Gora + Amazon DyanmoDB > Google Summer of Code Project. Well since it was last discussed on > list there has been quite a significant degree of progress. I would > really advise anyone interested in the future project outcomes to take > a bit of time to get up to speed with the project reporting which is > stored here[0]. > > In the last few reports Renato has made considerable work on a > restructuring of gora-core to accommodate web services (and actually > gora-sql!!!) as well as significant progress on the dynamodb module. > Fundamentally he discovered early underlying problems/conflicts of > interest between Avro and Amazon DynamoDB and therefore implemented > the restructuring of gora-core you now see in the goraamzon branch. > The upside of this is that many other datastores can now extend the > structure as well so it's quite clear this project is going to have a > longer than originally anticipated legacy for Gora :0) > > Although I have the task of official project mentor I think it > important to write to everyone and get feedback if any is offered. > Renato and myself were discussing whether to keep the amazon branch in > sync with trunk and although this is important I also think it is > important for us to communicate the expected changes the project will > ultimately propose back into Gora trunk. > > So with that said I encourage anyone to chip in on this thread with > anything they feel would either improve the project direction which we > can take on board and possibly incorporate within all of our best > interests. > > Thanks for now and ta in advance to anyone for input > Lewis > [0] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/gora/branches/goraamazon/gora-dynamodb/reporting/ > > -- > Lewis >
