Re: ZooKeeper gets three Google Summer of Code students

2010-04-27 Thread Patrick Hunt
3 GSOC projects approved, that's great! Thank you students for applying for a project, should be some interesting new functionality/features developed over the summer. Thanks to all the mentors for stepping up and volunteering their time and Henry for shepherding the gsoc process (as well as being

ZooKeeper gets three Google Summer of Code students

2010-04-26 Thread Henry Robinson
Hi - Just wanted to announce to the community that we are lucky to have three talented students working on Google's Summer of Code projects directly related to ZooKeeper. Andrei Savu will be working with Patrick Hunt on a Web-based Administrative Interface, extending and improving Patrick's

Re: Google Summer of Code

2010-03-11 Thread Patrick Hunt
Henry, good idea. I added an entry for BookKeeper FUSE module that I came up with but haven't had time to work on. Regarding Gustavo's suggestion, last I talked with Ben he had implemented the netty changes (adds encryp/certauth support) but hadn't had a chance to chase down all the bugs yet.

Re: Google Summer of Code

2010-03-10 Thread Qian Ye
Hi Henry, I think we should add two kinds of interface to the server: 1. An interface which can return the clients which set watcher on specific znode of the data tree. This kind of interface can be really helpful for the administrators. 2. An interface which can return a list of servers in a

Google Summer of Code

2010-03-09 Thread Henry Robinson
Google is running their 'Summer of Code' again this year. For those unfamiliar with it, SoC pays students a small stipend to contribute to an open-source project. ZooKeeper could greatly benefit from participation - there is always more work to do than the committers and contributors are able to

Re: Google Summer of Code

2010-03-09 Thread Gustavo Niemeyer
Hi Henry, There is a wiki page here: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ZooKeeper/SoC2010Ideas that requires that you sign up to edit. Please post your project ideas up there - I've left one as an example. You can also mail me directly and I'll post them myself. On Friday I'll tidy up the page

[Fwd: [GSoC 2009] Apache is officially participating in Google Summer of Code 2009]

2009-04-02 Thread Patrick Hunt
FYI. If anyone has ideas for ZooKeeper that might fit GSoC. Patrick ---BeginMessage--- Dear PMC, It's now official, Google has announced that The Apache Software Foundation was selected as one of the participating organization in the GSoC 2009 program. This is an excellent opportunity for