Le 19/02/2019 à 03:59, Tanya Schlusser a écrit : > Would developing an open standard for in-memory records qualify as 'GSoC' > worthy? > > In reference to this placeholder in the Confluence wiki: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ARROW/Apache+Arrow+Home#ApacheArrowHome-Developinganopenstandardforin-memoryrecords > which links to ARROW-1790 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-1790 > and to this thread > > https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/4818cb3d2ffb4677b24a4279c329fc518a1ac1c9d3017399a4269199@%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E > > Developing a standard, or even just starting a standard working group would > be quite a contribution, and allow a grad student the opportunity to > contact multiple leaders in the field. (I am thinking of something along > the lines of the Data Mining Group http://dmg.org/, which I believe is run > by a local professor here in Chicago).
My indirect experience (I have not mentored a GSoC student, but I have followed projects who had GSoC students at some point) is that GSoC projects must be focussed enough, and there should be little to no unknowns, so that the student can progress without getting lost. So I don't think asking to develop or start designing a standard is a good idea. Of course there may be the occasional brillant student who's able to overcome all that. Regards Antoine.
