Wow, thats a great idea. I think documenting the entire C API will really be a good thing to do. A whole API like that without documentation is not really cool so if someone can opt to do this then its really great. I like the idea Nges B and i will really like you to work on it.
Lets here what the guys in Apache have to say about this, i think its a good GSoC project for 2016, but we still have to hear from the Apache Guru's. Keep working Nges. Cheers!!!! Regards Alangi Derick Ndimnain On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Sam Groth <[email protected]> wrote: > As someone who has written extensive Avro C docs (unfortunately mixed with > proprietary info), I think this would be great addition to the Avro project. > I don't know if it is enough work for a summer project though. Adding a > specific value interface similar to Java or C++'s specific record interface > or adding an rpc interface would be a nice addition to the C interface. Maybe > you could consider writing docs and implementing one of these? A specific > value interface would be more useful for me, but the rpc interface could be > more useful for others. I'm not sure what GSOC reviewers will look for. It > might depend on whether someone at Google is interested in Avro. > > Just some thoughts,Sam > > On Friday, January 22, 2016 8:16 AM, Nges B <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello > I do not know whether this is the right play for this proposal. > > I am a C and C++ developer. > I have been in this organization for more than 4months. I have discovered > the following about the C API; > Firstly the C API is seldom used or spoken about on this mailing list. > Secondly there are no bugs on this API on the Bug track. I therefore > came to the conclude that few people use this API. > > with the above mentioned points I asked myself this question. as > powerful as C is, why is this API left behind? > After studies and research, > I concluded that this might be because of the lack of a Documentation > on the latest version of this API. > > I think with a Documentation on this API, it is going to go a long way > to increase and ease the use of this Powerful API. > Therefore I will like to propose this as a Google Summer of Code > Project( GSOC Project) for myself. > I will like to start working on it right know if given the > opportunity to so that by then I should have very little work to do. > Please I will like to know your minds about this proposal and to know > whether this project can stand a chance to be selected as a GSOC > Project for this year?. > I will really like to work on this API and contribute to it as much as I can. > Thanks and Cheers > > >
