I like the idea, sounds very interesting. Vinayak, will you put your thoughts in more detail and maybe make a list of features that we can use for the GSOC list?
Cezar On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Michael Carey <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like a great direction, and one that would be very interesting > to the community! (Except maybe Marklogic? :-)) > > Cheers, > Mike > > > > On 2/8/12 1:44 AM, Vinayak Borkar wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> >> Given that we are at a juncture where either we try to build out this >> project and build a community OR remove the project from the incubator, I >> have a proposal that I feel will help us get community interest in the >> project. >> >> My proposal is to slightly change the focus of the project to cater to >> different use cases than originally proposed while still continuing to >> build an XQuery processor. >> >> In the original proposal, we proposed to build an XQuery processor to >> target multiple input formats. In the beginning there was a lot of interest >> in this direction from the mentors which has seemed to quiet down recently. >> In the meantime, people have been increasingly interested in processing >> large amounts of data. To this end, I propose that we switch the focus of >> the VXQuery project to target big XML data use cases. >> >> In terms of work done, we get to reuse a majority of the code that has >> already been built. In terms of the tasks to be done, the immediate focus >> will be on parallelizing the existing codebase to be able to handle large >> amounts of XML data. >> >> I feel that this slight change in focus will be a fun challenge from a >> development standpoint and also will help us gain a community given the >> growing interest in Big data processing. >> >> Looking forward to your thoughts. >> >> Thanks, >> Vinayak >> >
