Thanks very much, I will follow your advice and make it perfect! Thanks again!
Regards 2011/4/8 Kathey Marsden <[email protected]> > On 4/7/2011 10:58 AM, Houx Zhang wrote: > >> Hi, all. I would like to apply for this GSOC on Derby and hope to get your >> advice on my proposal. Thanks! >> >> Thank you Houx for sending the proposal. I have not looked at it closely > but we are close to the deadline so I will throw a few things out there. The > most important thing is to get it submitted before the deadline. > > 1) Make sure you mention how many hours per week this summer you plan to > work on Derby and if you have any other plans, travel commitments etc. > 2) Include a section on your experience, not a complete resume but a short > summary what languages you have programmed in, relevant coursework > especially in database and Java and any programming projects you are > particularly proud of. > 3) Include basic contact information and the name of your university and > whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student. > 4) Make sure you talk to Tiago about having an IRC interview if you have > not already. > > The ranking process is outlined at: > http://community.apache.org/mentee-ranking-process.html > > Unfortunately the melange tool is different this year so it will have to be > adjusted slightly but these are the things that will be scored, so you want > to make sure that everything there is covered. In the past around the > cutoff line just a point or two makes a difference. > > HTH and good Luck! > > > Kathey > > > >> What have I done on Derby? >> I have joined Derby on March 3. In the past month, I have set up my >> building and testing environment for Derby by the instructions in wiki, read >> the source code and created and assigned some issues on JIRA[1]. I have >> provided some patches for them, some of which have been commited to the >> Deryby repository, and some others are in discussion. In my work on Derby, I >> have received great help from other developers the mailing list and JIRA, >> such as Kathey, Myrna, Bryan, Knut..... Sometimes I actively launched a >> discussion in mailing list, for example, "how to deal with test failure in >> Chinese locale" and created issues related, which is also one source of my >> GSOC idea. >> >> What will I do this GSOC? >> >> My Task can be divided into 3 parts, and milestones are given accordingly: >> >> 1.Make testcases pass in non-English locale(April 20 to June 10) >> As descripted in [2], there are a lot of derby testing depending on the >> English locale, which will fail in a non-English locale. There is a admitted >> way to resolve this problem. Firstly, find the junit test cases that fails >> in non-English locale. For each of them, if it fails just because the >> content of message is different from expected, a assertion based on SQLState >> will be adopted; otherwise, a hard-code locale will be used. If we find a >> test fails in non-English locale not caused by locale itself, then we >> discover a good usage scenario. >> >> I have basicly finished the first step "find the junit test cases that >> fails in non-English locale". When running test cases in Chinese Locale, I >> have got dozes of failure. Afeter checking the output, I make sure most of >> them are caused by non-English Locale environment. They concentrate in the >> two packages----org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.tools and >> org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.lang, and each test classes may >> throw more than 5 exceptions. They are ImportExportIJTest, >> SysinfoCPCheckTest in org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.tools, and >> DynamicLikeOptimizationTest, GrantRevokeTest, InbetweenTest, JoinTest, >> LangScripts, StalePlansTest, DistinctTest, GroupByTest, ForUpdateTest, >> ScrollCursors1Test, ErrorCodeTest, TableFunctionTest, PredicatePushdownTest, >> XplainStatisticsTest, XplainStatisticsTest, XplainStatisticsTest, >> NistScripts(has dozes of failure), LangHarnessJavaTest, >> OrderByAndSortAvoidance, OptimizerOverridesTest, OffsetFetchNextTest, >> OrderByAndOffsetFetchInSubqueries in >> org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.lang. I plan to make the 24 test >> classes pass in non-English locale. The resolution is just mentioned above >> "if it fails just because the content of message is different from expected, >> a assertion based on SQLState will be adopted; otherwise, a hard-code locale >> will be used." >> >> Though these subtasks are very similar, and not so hard, considering I'm >> not so free before summer holiday, 7 weeks are planned for them, 3-4 per >> week. Serial of patches will be given, each for one test class, and each is >> in a separate issue. >> >> 2.Convert remaining store SQL tests into JUnit tests(June 11 to July 25) >> In the package , some sql scripts need to be converted into JUnit. They >> are RowLockBasic.sql, TableLockBasic.sql, longColumn.sql, >> updatelocksJDBC30.sql, and updatelocks.sql. ScriptTestCase is not so >> suitable for the new test cases, it will be better to re-write the test by >> hand using standard JDBC calls and the utility methods and decorators >> available[3]. >> >> Each of the five converting is not a easy work, so 7 weeks is planned for >> these tasks. Issues will be created for each of them. >> >> 3.Converting ij[1-4].sqls to ScripTestCase (July 26-August 15) >> In the package org.apache.derbyTesting.functionTests.tests.tools, there >> are ij.sql, ij1,sql, ij2.sql, ij3.sql, ij4.sql, ij5.sql, ij6.sql and >> ij7.sql, which are very suitable to converted to JUnit by extending >> ScripTestCase[4]. >> >> Considering my experience on converting IJConnectionName.sql, the work is >> not so easy. So 3 weeks is planned for it, and I just choose 4 of them to >> realise. If time is OK, I will certainly try to do more. >> >> >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5084 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5155 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4260 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-4443 >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5155 >> [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-5155 >> [3] http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/KillDerbyTestHarness >> [4] http://wiki.apache.org/db-derby/ConvertSqlScriptTestsToJunit >> >> >> >> -- >> Houx Zhang >> >> > > -- Houx Zhang
