On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 23:17 +0530, Kishanthan wrote: > Im an undergraduate student from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. > Im interested in participating the GSOC program for Apache-Cassandra. > I went through the wiki page at > http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GoogleSoc2010 and found some ideas > for GSOC 2010.
Excellent. > I would like to know about the idea : *Finish creating an Avro > interface alongside Thrift* > Please give me some details on this idea on where to begin and what > are the skills i need. You'll need to be able to code in Java (Cassandra is written in Java after all). Additionally, I think you'd need a firm understanding of the Thrift interface and how data is modeled in Cassandra (basically all the stuff you'd need to know to write applications against it). -- Eric Evans eev...@rackspace.com