See comments inline. On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 6:52 AM, grassonsand <grassons...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
I envision two visualize components in Pig. One is a lightweight visualizer invoked by Grunt, which should be fast and concise, and integrated into explain command. The other is a standalone composer similar to PigPen, which should be much powerful. PIG-2586 is intended to track the first, but Russel's comment is talking about the second. Both are acceptable as a GSoC project. I leave it to Russel. > > (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? Yes > > Best regards > Shasha(Amy) Liu
