Hi Alexandre ,

I think its a great idea to have someone look into the usability part as a
GSOC project.

However I feel we should define this task somewhat before people start
applying. The student should not get caught up in a Jira which is
attracting lots of discussions from the devs . This could be quite
overwhelming to someone new to the project.

> looking at downstream Apache projects using Solr and helping them to move
to Solr 6, things like that.

I'm not sure how that would classify as a GSOC project under the Apache
Lucene Project?

Here are a few ideas which come to my head that a student could take on as
a project

   - Improving the admin dashboard UI
   - Polishing all our APIs - We have Schema APIs / Config APIs and V2 APIs
   for stuff like creating collections etc. - Can one take a basic configset
   and recreate all the remaining configsets that we have in Solr using these
   APIs ( example-DIH/* , films , techproducts ) . We would find gaps here
   which one could work on


On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ASF is in the GSC this year again.  They are now looking for
> committer-access mentors. The announcement went through the Apache
> Community list.
>
> I would like to mentor a student with focus on onboarding activities,
> maybe generating some better examples, looking at downstream Apache
> projects using Solr and helping them to move to Solr 6, things like
> that.
>
> Is that a good/bad idea? I know it is a burden time-wise, but I'll
> give it a try. Stack Overflow may suffer a bit during that period, but
> çe la vie :-)
>
> Any feedback would be welcome, this would be my first time as GSOC mentor.
>
> Regards,
>    Alex.
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