hi Kevin, I did post a JIRA ticket about Arrow project ideas. Perhaps I'm mistaken about where we are in the process so hopefully it is still possible to find a student to work on database driver bridges.
> I saw your involvement with community and its more than enough time to mentor > a student. I have to chuckle a bit about this one =) I personally don't have the bandwidth to do more than I'm already doing. - Wes On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:38 AM Kevin Ratnasekera <djkevincr1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Wes, > > Why do you think of not participating this year? Google just announced > apache as accepted org. And this is the usual time where students start to > pop up. Its not too late to create some new ideas and post new tickets on > Jira. It doesn’t even matter you post something very basic, what most > important is to student get chance to involve in a community and learn > something new. > > I saw your involvement with community and its more than enough time to > mentor a student. I encourage you to stay in the program and help students > to get onboarded. > > Regards > Kevin > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:30 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > It would be interesting. I think the ship has sailed on GSoC for us > > unfortunately. I'll try again to get the community interested in it > > next year; hopefully I'll have a little more bandwidth then to help > > make it happen > > > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:13 AM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > It might be interesting to build an ingestion bridge from Flight servers > > to > > > Spark or vice versa. > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:25 AM Krisztián Szűcs < > > szucs.kriszt...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > I'd like to implement the Clickhouse[1] bridge, perhaps I can find some > > > > time in the near future. There is a client library[2] which quiet > > nicely > > > > aligns with Arrow's columnar format. > > > > I'd also consider MySQL, because that's the most popular database. > > > > > > > > [1] clickhouse.yandex > > > > [2] https://github.com/artpaul/clickhouse-cpp > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:16 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I agree with Antoine. The more well-defined and less uncertain the > > > > > project, the higher the probability of success. I had suggested > > > > > implementing a bridge between one or more database protocols (e.g. > > > > > SQLite3 or libpq / PostgreSQL) as example projects that could get > > done > > > > > in 3 months. By the way, if anyone is interested in working on these > > > > > projects independent of GSoC please reach out to me. > > > > > > > > > > - Wes > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:24 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > >
