Hi Suresh, Thanks for briefing the Airavata GSOC and the past year projects. I think gsockers have to work with Airavata 1.0. I would like to Know when you planned to release a stable version of new Airavata 1.0
Regards Udara. On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Suresh Marru <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Apache Airavata will participate in GSoC 2014 through the Apache Software > Foundation as we did last couple of years. We hope to have a good number of > project ideas as we did in the past. in 2013, there were 6 airavata based > gsoc projects accepted. > > We will soon propose the ideas, but for now the best thing is to get a > overview of Airavata by playing around with recently released 0.11 version. > The trunk may be broken as you can sense from the dev list, there is a lot > of activity to re-architect a bit in preparation for Airavata 1.0 release > with a stable API and component level CPI's. > > Quite frankly, Airavata GSoC tend to be non-trivial and time consuming. > But we take the projects very seriously and look for students who are > committed to get the projects integrated into main code base and continue > supporting them and be engaged with the community. For students who > continue to be engaged beyond gsoc we try to get them onboard as committers > and support if they would like to publish technical and research papers. > But all these, after you pass the gsoc hurdles which tend to be higher than > an average gsoc project. The following two mail threads from last year are > still relevant. > > http://markmail.org/message/rmotieckqj3a4xxv > http://markmail.org/message/rw2qzpukheow5aiy > > Please do not take on challenge of airavata, unless you really have good > amount of time to spare. This year, we will hope to have more concrete > projects with well-defined weekly sprints and we will try to be rigid in > passing mid-terms and finals. All of it will be compensated by a committed > mentorship though. > > Suresh > > >
