Dear all,
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and have 4-year Java
programming experience focusing on Java Web development.
In the candidate projects in PIG, I am interested in PIG-2586 (A better
plan/data flow visualizer) and PIG-2599 (Mavenize Pig).
In my on-going research project, I am in charge of (1). web user
interface development and (2). build system. Now I am working on adding
hadoop capability to the project. The main reason I am interested in the
PIG project is that I can make a contribution to the PIG community based
on my previous experience, and learn from the participant in GSoC this
year and benefit my on-going research project at the same time.
(1). User interface development
I have used several graphic libraries to visualize semantic data and our
own data set, e.g., Jung, graphviz, BIRT, and several plot plugins in
jquery.
Therefore, I am interested in working on a new tool for PIG visualizer.
After looking through the bug issue, I have several questions:
(i) As both swing and javascript are mentioned, is this project a
web or standalone application?
(ii) As ruby-graphviz is included, Is ruby required for this project?
(2). Build system
The code base of my research project is 40K loc and the build script was
written in Ant. Part of my duty is to convert the ant build script to
maven and maintain the build script. Therefore, Mavenize Pig is of
interest to me too. The build.xml in PIG project is more complicated
than the one I worked before. It includes ant, maven and ivy. Do we need
to use maven to do all the tasks and get rid of all the dependency on
ant, maven and ivy?
Best regards
Shasha(Amy) Liu
