Julian, thanks. Sounds like a plan. I will proceed. Best, Edmon
On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 17:12 Julian Hyde <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
