I think it’s important that the project should start off with some “mechanical” stuff that doesn’t require any design. Coming up to speed on a new code base is challenging. The GIS functions work has that property.
> On Nov 13, 2018, at 11:36 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good thought. I'll keep that in mind as well. There's probably far more > projects (and students) than I'll be able to supervise, but hopefully > Calcite will be able to get some mileage from this. > > -- > Michael Mior > [email protected] > > > Le mar. 13 nov. 2018 à 13:04, Julian Hyde <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> There’s always more work to be done in Geospatial, e.g. >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2031 < >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2031>. The easy part is to >> create scalar (row-at-a-time) implementations of spatial functions, but the >> real fun starts when you transform queries to use materialized views >> (“indexes”). Until now, everything has been on rectangular grids and >> space-filling curves (i.e. assuming flat-earth) but indexing using Uber H3 >> [1] or Google S2 would be challenging and cutting-edge. >> >> Julian >> >> [1] https://github.com/uber/h3 >> >>> On Nov 12, 2018, at 9:02 AM, Michael Mior <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> One of the perks of being a career academic is the availability of >> students >>> who are looking for interesting projects to work on. I'll be having >> Masters >>> students work with me on a regular basis on final projects for their >>> degree. I'm hoping that some of these can be useful to Calcite. >>> >>> If anyone can think of a few issues that are technically interesting, not >>> too large in scope, and don't currently have anyone working on them, I'm >>> all ears :) >>> >>> A few issues below I found which could be interesting although some might >>> be too large in scope for someone who's never seen Calcite before. >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-481 >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1440 >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1737 >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-1861 >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2141 >>> >>> -- >>> Michael Mior >>> [email protected] >> >>
