Hi devs, Does anyone have more ideas related to derby tools? Cheers, Denis
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:13 AM, Kathey Marsden <kmarsdende...@sbcglobal.net > wrote: > Tiago Espinha wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> My name is Tiago Espinha and I participated in last year's edition of >> Google Summer of Code. I've decided to participate again this year >> > > Welcome back and thanks for pulling DERBY-728 out of the freezer. It is > an often requested improvement. I put the labels "mentor" and "gsoc" on > the issue which is this year's process for introducing it as a google > summer of code idea. For GSOC you are not limited to the ideas marked in > Jira, but can introduce your own idea as long as you find a mentor willing > to pick it up. > > I have always been a bit skeptical of code generation tools. It has been > well over a decade since I have even looked at one, but my experience was > that while great for prototyping, they just did not produce maintainable or > properly commented code and were not practical when working on a mature > existing code base like Derby, but am willing to be proven wrong. > > As for something meaty for your thesis, DERBY-472 Full text indexing and > search is forever popular. DERBY-11 is a more SQL focussed project but > should be a challenge. DERBY-672 user defined aggregates might be > interesting too, but I don't know how much work it is exactly. I think > there may be some pending XML work too. Unfortunately though I can't step > forward as a mentor on any of these and hope you will work on DERBY-728 > this summer and start on a feature of some sort in the fall. > > > Kathey > >
