[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] PLEASE READ ! We need your opinion. GSOC-2014 and the Gluster community

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 03/13/2014 11:49 PM, John Mark Walker wrote:
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>> Welcome, Carlos.  I think it's great that you're taking initiative here.
> +1 - I love enthusiastic fresh me^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcommunity members! :)
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>> However, it's also important to set proper expectations for what a GSoC
>> intern
>> could reasonably be expected to achieve.  I've seen some amazing stuff out of
>> GSoC, but if we set the bar too high then we end up with incomplete code and
>> the student doesn't learn much except frustration.
> This. The reason we haven't really participated in GSoC is not because we don't want to - it's because it's exceptionally difficult for a project of our scope, but that doesn't mean there aren't any possibilities. As an example, last year the Open Source Lab at OSU worked with a student to create an integration with Ganeti, which was mostly successful, and I think work has continued on that project. That's an example of a project with the right scope.

IMO integration projects are ideal fits for GSoc. I can see some 
information in Trello back log i.e. under "Ecosystem Integration". But 
not sure of their current status. I think we should again take look on 
these and see if something can be done through GSoc.

>>> 3) Accelerator node project. Some storage solutions out there offer an
>>> "accelerator node", which is, in short, a, extra node with a lot of RAM,
>>> eventually fast disks (SSD), and that works like a proxy to the regular
>>> volumes. active chunks of files are moved there, logs (ZIL style) are
>>> recorded on fast media, among other things. There is NO active project for
>>> this, or trello entry, because it is something I started discussing with a
>>> few fellows just a couple of days ago. I thought of starting to play with
>>> RAM disks (tmpfs) as scratch disks, but, since we have an opportunity to do
>>> something more efficient, or at the very least start it, why not ?
>> Looks like somebody has read the Isilon marketing materials.  ;)
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>> A full production-level implementation of this, with cache consistency and
>> so on, would be a major project.  However, a non-consistent prototype good
>> for specific use cases - especially Hadoop, as Jay mentions - would be
>> pretty easy to build.  Having a GlusterFS server (for the real clients)
>> also be a GlusterFS client (to the real cluster) is pretty straightforward.
>> Testing performance would also be a significant component of this, and IMO
>> that's something more developers should learn about early in their careers.
>> I encourage you to keep thinking about how this could be turned into a real
>> GSoC proposal.
> Excellent. This has possibilities.
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> Another possibility is in the mobile app space. I think it would be awesome to port GFAPI to Android, for example. Or to make use of the python or ruby bindings for GFAPI to create a server-side RESTful API that a mobile app can access.
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> -JM
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