Re: [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.  ;)
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> -JM
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