Edmon, Welcome! Thanks for introducing yourself.
One area you could help is by reviewing the existing documentation. Run through the examples on the web site (e.g. http://calcite.apache.org/docs/tutorial.html <http://calcite.apache.org/docs/tutorial.html>) and see whether it is consistent and complete. (I.e. does it make sense, and does it tell you about everything you would like to know about Calcite, in a sensible order.) If you would like to write some code, Spatial is an area that you could contribute. There are a lot of OpenGIS functions to implement, but they can be done one at a time, and usually each takes very little effort because there is already an implementations in the underlying ESRI library. Take a look at https://github.com/apache/calcite/commit/3e9d3b2 <https://github.com/apache/calcite/commit/3e9d3b2> and you’ll see that each function requires a small change to just 3 files: GeoFunctions.java, spatial.iq, reference.md. Start with say ST_X(geom), which you can base upon ST_Z(geom). Julian > On Oct 30, 2017, at 8:36 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Edmon, > > Nice to meet you and welcome to the community! > > I don't have enough context to throw some well-bounded problems at you (I > tend to do most of my work on Avatica rather than Calcite directly), but I > thought it would be nice to say hello anyways :) > > Your aspirations and ambition sound great. I look forward to your > contributions in both code and literature form. > > - Josh > > On 10/30/17 6:38 PM, Edmon Begoli wrote: >> Hello, >> I want to introduce myself as a possible new member of the Calcite team >> (I know some of you from the Drill team, etc.) >> I am a practicing researcher with an interest and the expertise in >> advanced data structures, and databases in general (grammars, >> architecture, etc.) >> I would like to start making contributions, particularly in the >> applications of algorithms, or new language formalisms in the areas >> that could benefit from those - performance improvements, new >> grammatical constructs, parsing, etc. >> To this end -- please share with me if there are areas where you feel >> Calcite could benefit from new features, or the optimizations. >> I do not have time to do lots of heavy lifting coding, but I have >> plenty of research and development time and expertise, specially if >> you throw a concrete problem at me. >> Thank you, >> Edmon >> P.S. I will start with contributions with the documentation, papers, >> presentations, which will allow me to learn the architecture in more >> details.
