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Tiago R. Espinha commented on DERBY-5091:
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@ Houx,
This issue is still work in progress. I plan on aggregating here a mix of some
test conversions and open bugs in JIRA. At this point, I'm considering
including some (or eventually all) our SQL store tests
(java/testing/org/apache/derbyTesting/functionTests/tests/store/*.sql) but this
is something I'm still thinking about. Ideally, the GSoC student would do a
nice mix of not only test conversions (that, in my experience, get boring after
a while) but also bug fixes which tend to be more exciting as they add actual
tangible value to Derby.
@ David and Houx,
In the meanwhile, while GSoC hasn't officially started and to demonstrate that
you really have everything up and running, it'd be a really good step to pickup
an issue on JIRA marked as "Newcomer" and get grinding on it. Those issues
David suggested are both for Newcomers so maybe that's a good starting point.
Keep in mind that the competition this year seems to be tough (many candidates
and apparently only me as a mentor), so it's really important to get cracking
on it even before GSoC starts; obviously, if I have to pick from two students
where one of them has everything set up and has already demonstrated that
he/she can do test conversions, and the other hasn't really done anything so
far, then my choice will be pretty simple to make.
It's also important to get in touch with the community by subscribing and
participating (even if with questions) in our mailing lists and eventually in
our IRC channel as well; I find that the IRC bit makes for better communication
between mentors and mentees. I usually idle around #derby at irc.freenode.net
as do several other contributors and students.
So, for now, I would say pick up something for newcomers and try to fix it. And
please, if you get stuck or if you need some pointers, feel free to ask on our
mailing list.
> Derby Test and Fix 2011 GSoC Project
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> Key: DERBY-5091
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5091
> Project: Derby
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Tiago R. Espinha
> Assignee: Tiago R. Espinha
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: gsoc2011
>
> This is the JIRA issue where I will be aggregating issues that might be
> interesting for a student to address in a "test-and-fix project" under my
> mentoring during a Google Summer of Code project, for this year's edition.
> Ideally, I would like to have a closed set of issues that are to be addressed
> by a single student during the whole program before the program itself
> starts. If you have comments or suggestions, please feel free to comment on
> this issue.
> Obviously, in open-source we cannot stop people from working on whichever
> issues they feel like. I would actually be quite happy if there were students
> starting work on some of these issues even before the program starts. That
> will certainly weigh in when the time to make a decision comes.
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