Ok! That's new territory for me too. As for the simulator, it's also best to test monitoring on a *real* cluster, I have many machines around me all day...
Thanks for the support! It's really encouraging. I'll be in touch. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Gary Dusbabek <gdusba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:03, Pablo Cuadrado <pablocuadr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is a great date to start thinking around, from April's 1st to 5th >> we have the easter holidays down here, so a lot of free time. >> >> Please tell me if some kind of "formal" application is needed, I will >> evaluate the needs, goals, possible solutions (servlet, REST, >> whatsoever) and try to deliver a rough (I couldn't stress ROUGH >> enough...) roadmap thinking on the final deliverable desired. >> > > I believe the Apache Foundation is already listed as a mentoring > organization (I can't find a list anywhere though), so I think you > just need to submit an application to gsoc. > http://code.google.com/soc/ > > I've never participated as a student or mentor, so this is new > territory for me. I can't speak for other devs, but I would be happy > to look at your proposal before it goes to google and offer feedback. > >> >> Also, just wondering: is the simulator reliable? for monitoring >> testing purposes... anyway, I'm just jumping waaaay ahead... > > There was something submitted to a jira ticket a few months ago along > this line, but it never made it into contrib and hasn't progressed > afaik. I wouldn't go that route. It is pretty simple to bring up a > test cluster on a dev machine anyway. > > Gary. >
