FYI, it seems as though at least one other person has chosen a similar task for GSOC:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-avro-dev/201003.mbox/%3c179519d11003212231y4537eb03i6f89eb3f6f745...@mail.gmail.com%3e On Apr 5, 2010, at 4:31 PM, Jasintha Dasanayaka wrote: > Hey..! > I am going to submit proposal for AVRO-457 can you do it AVRO-458 only > > On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Hua Huang <h...@sfu.ca> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> This is Hua Huang, a CS master student from Simon Fraser University, >> Canada. >> I am going to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2010 and I also find >> out that several projects of AVRO are quite interesting, especially >> AVRO-456(add tools that read/write json records from/to avro data files) >> together with AVRO-457 and AVRO-458. >> >> >> >> I plan to submit a proposal for these projects which would produce a C/C++ >> command-line tool to support transformation between AVRO data and other >> types of data, like CSV, Json or XML. My key idea is to use parallel bit >> stream technology to speed up the parsing procedure in order to build a >> high >> performance tool which will be very useful in practical, especially in the >> large-scale dataset. >> >> >> >> I sent an email to Doug Cutting(cutt...@apache.org) who is the reporter of >> these projects, but I haven't received any reply yet. So I am wondering, is >> there anybody who can communicate with me for the details of the projects, >> or even suggest me a person so that I could contact with him/her for the >> details? >> >> >> >> Any feedback is really appreciated. Thank you very much. >> >> >> >> Yours Sincerely, >> >> Hua >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Jasintha Dasanayaka > +94 772 916 596 > +94 472 232 139 > http://www.jasintha.info > jasint...@gmail.com
