HI Sergio, On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:27 AM, Sergio Esteves <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am planning to apply for GSoC 2014, and the project Gora from Apache > caught my attention. > Excellent. This is great. > > I am currently a PhD student of Computer Science and Engineering and I > have been working on distributed noSql data stores. I participated last > year in GSoC with the project Tajo from Apache (a big data warehouse system > in Hadoop), where I successfully completed it. > I've looked at your work, I wonder if @enis does also know. Maybe Henry as well. This is excellent. > > Can you provide me more details regarding these two issues: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-13 (what is the current status > of this issue - it has not been updated for a while) > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GORA-295 (how is the current > caching module working?) > The current situation with the EhCache and the proposed GSoC project is that it is a clean slate. We are looking for someone with some drive to take it on and make Gora a better framework for the effort. If you fit the bill then this is great. > > I know that Apache has a fixed amount of slots for projects/issues that > can take part in the GSoC, so, as Gore was chosen last year, do you think > this year it will be accepted again? For instance, last year I made a > proposal for a Pig issue, but Pig was discarded from Apache projects for > GSoC afterwards (when the results of student applications came out). > Over the years I have come to recognize that proposals gain merit through their quality and through community backing. It's quite simple. I for one would back you up 100% if you were to apply for this years project. I would however advise that it may not be wise to put all of your eggs in the one basket. > > Thank you and look forward to hearing from you, > Thank for getting in touch Sergio. Lewis
