The Drizzle Database project is proud to be a returning participating mentoring open source organization for the Google Summer of Code 2013.
The Google Summer of Code is a collaborative that program pays a stipend to selected college students to develop desired features in various open source projects, under the direction and mentorship of experienced open source developers. The world wins because the more open source software gets more and better features, the participating projects win by getting the new features, and by gaining experience in mentoring and in bringing in new developers, and the students win by getting paid as a summer job working on projects that can have a significant impact on their career. This year, GSoC and Drizzle will be sponsoring and mentoring 4 students. Sharan Kumar will be mentored by Patrick Crews on a project to package and parallelize the continuous integration infrastructure used by Drizzle. Drizzle was a pioneering example of the "gated trunk" continuous testing and integration pattern that directly inspired the CI pattens used by the OpenStack project. Kuldeep Porwal will be mentored by Andrew Hutchings on a project to allow MySQL to replicate into Drizzle. Being able to read MySQL replication streams will enable Drizzle to be introduced and useful in existing and complex production instances of MySQL. Ajaya K Agrawal will be mentored by Stewart Smith on a project to improve the replication policy feature in Drizzle. Mohit Srivastava will be mentored also be Stewart Smith on a project to extend the JSON API in Drizzle. Drizzle 7.1 can speak a very basic JSON key/value store pattern, and this project will improve it. We were gratified by the deluge of proposals by prospective GSoC students. Sorting them all out, picking the ones that were most likely to be successful, and selecting mentors was a difficult job. These ones that we settled on were ones that fit the best with Drizzle's mission, were ones that we knew we could mentor, and were proposed by students who had already engaged withe the project by participating in the IRC channel and mailing list and by demonstrating their technical engagement by using Launchpad and BZR to check out the project, build it, pick some reported bugs, and fixing them. We wish all the other applicants well, and suggest that they can engage with the project over the next year, and that will greatly increase their chances of being selected next year. And, again, congratulations to Sharan, Kuldeep, Ajaya, and Mohit.
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