Guys,
Given that we are at a juncture where either we try to build out this project and build a community OR remove the project from the incubator, I have a proposal that I feel will help us get community interest in the project.
My proposal is to slightly change the focus of the project to cater to different use cases than originally proposed while still continuing to build an XQuery processor.
In the original proposal, we proposed to build an XQuery processor to target multiple input formats. In the beginning there was a lot of interest in this direction from the mentors which has seemed to quiet down recently. In the meantime, people have been increasingly interested in processing large amounts of data. To this end, I propose that we switch the focus of the VXQuery project to target big XML data use cases.
In terms of work done, we get to reuse a majority of the code that has already been built. In terms of the tasks to be done, the immediate focus will be on parallelizing the existing codebase to be able to handle large amounts of XML data.
I feel that this slight change in focus will be a fun challenge from a development standpoint and also will help us gain a community given the growing interest in Big data processing.
Looking forward to your thoughts. Thanks, Vinayak
