Re: GSoC benefits

2012-03-21 Thread Varun Thacker
Hi Eli, I'm a student too interested in taking up a hadoop task as a gsoc project. There are JIRA tickets tagged explicitly as gsoc so I wanted to discuss a few ideas before deciding to take up a particular task. I had asked the list earlier and got no replies on it. http://mail-archives.apache.o

Re: GSoC benefits

2012-03-20 Thread Eli Collins
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Doron Tsur wrote: > Hi Eli, > > I was fairly interested in the following: > > 1. write new unit tests based on code coverage - The link seems broken to > me so I couldn't read up > 2. create a distributed JUnit runner on top of Hadoop  - I need to read up > some mo

Re: GSoC benefits

2012-03-20 Thread Doron Tsur
Hi Eli, I was fairly interested in the following: 1. write new unit tests based on code coverage - The link seems broken to me so I couldn't read up 2. create a distributed JUnit runner on top of Hadoop - I need to read up some more about this, but this looks really interesting. I was thinking

Re: GSoC benefits

2012-03-19 Thread Eli Collins
Hey Doron, These links are a good starting point: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/ProjectSuggestions http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopResearchProjects I'd also checkout unresolved new features in jira. This query is a starting point. You can edit th

Re: GSOC Prospective student

2011-04-04 Thread Varun Thacker
@Amandeep I think the mentors will have to be from ASF . If anyone in the list will be able to elaborate . I am really enthusiastic to work on Hadoop this summer. On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Amandeep Khurana wrote: > Varun, > What does it take to be a mentor? What are the requirements? > -

Re: gsoc

2010-04-05 Thread alex kamil
Pek, also check out these references, you may find some overlap with your thesis topic http://ianvarley.com/UT/MR/Varley_MastersReport_Full_2009-08-07.pdf http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~jimmylin/book.html btw, if you are looking for an exciting research topic applying Hadoop in biomed world pls drop

Re: gsoc

2010-04-05 Thread Stack
Its a good idea Daniel. See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1109 St.Ack On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Allen Wittenauer wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Pek Daniel wrote: >> As far as i know Google's solution for storing static configuration is >> Chubby. Hadoop currently sug

Re: gsoc

2010-04-05 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Apr 5, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Pek Daniel wrote: > As far as i know Google's solution for storing static configuration is > Chubby. Hadoop currently suggests manage-scripts for keeping in sync > the xml-files on the nodes' local fs. I think, it would be a great > summer project to make hadoop servic