[dev] Participate in GSOC 2014

[kumar rishabh <sh...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
I am Kumar Rishabh a third year undergraduate student from India. I would
like to participate in GSOC this year as a participant under libcloud
project. I am pretty interested in Database As a Service API project.

Please guide me how I can proceed with the same and give me some pointers
to easy bugs so that I can get familiar with the code.

Thanks

-- 
Kumar Rishabh
UG3, BTech CS+MS
IIIT-Hyderabad

Re: [dev] Participate in GSOC 2014

[kumar rishabh <sh...@gmail.com>]

Thanks for such detailed reply I will start with playing around with
libcloud api first and goig through amazon rds and rackspace rds service


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Before providing more details I just need to give a short disclaimer.
>
> We (Apache as an organization and Libcloud as a project) haven't been
> accepted in GSoC 2014, but we will apply and hope we get a spot.
>
> Now onto the details.
>
> 1. Getting familiar with the library
>
> If you aren't familiar with Libcloud yet, I would recommend to first get
> familiar with the library from the end user perspective. This means
> installing and playing with it.
>
> If you don't have a cloud account which you can use, you can Google for
> DigitalOcean coupon or for a Rackspace developer discount which allows you
> to use this services for free for a while.
>
> 2. Getting familiar with the code base
>
> After you are familiar with the external API, I would recommend checking
> the code (https://github.com/apache/libcloud).
>
> To get some real life experience with the code base, usually the best thing
> to start with is to add / contribute some extension methods (with tests) to
> one of the providers we support.
>
> 3. DBaaS API
>
> To get started with the DBaaS API, I would recommend checking and getting
> familiar with the Amazon RDS and Rackspace RDS service.
>
> IIRC, in 2012 one of the Rackspace interns in Blacksburg was working on
> this as part of his intern project, but I don't know how much progress he
> made (I wasn't his mentor). I will try to to find his Github fork.
>
> After you are familiar with the API, you can start drafting a proposal.
> Here are some examples:
>
> -
>
> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201109.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmLfWki5awUqZL9ZNsrpJFkHNHAe00Vs5SeaJXkmWSxJ7g@mail.gmail.com%3E
> -
>
> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201312.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmKOsFYJZDZQLb_Z2q1Rs8Ke%2B%2BxUNnqqEbPjyTccTgPYHQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> -
>
> https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201401.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmKKqhEhW2c1n3eroqCn-QXkc_G1gLnap60FO3DS_TLuzQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
> (ugh,
> this thread seems to be messed up and I can't link or view the first
> message)
>
> (I also plan to update JIRA ticket with more information some time this
> week).
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:33 AM, kumar rishabh <shailrishabh@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > I am Kumar Rishabh a third year undergraduate student from India. I would
> > like to participate in GSOC this year as a participant under libcloud
> > project. I am pretty interested in Database As a Service API project.
> >
> > Please guide me how I can proceed with the same and give me some pointers
> > to easy bugs so that I can get familiar with the code.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > --
> > Kumar Rishabh
> > UG3, BTech CS+MS
> > IIIT-Hyderabad
> >
>



-- 
Kumar Rishabh
UG3, BTech CS+MS
IIIT-Hyderabad

Re: [dev] Participate in GSOC 2014

[Tomaz Muraus <to...@apache.org>]

Hi,

Before providing more details I just need to give a short disclaimer.

We (Apache as an organization and Libcloud as a project) haven't been
accepted in GSoC 2014, but we will apply and hope we get a spot.

Now onto the details.

1. Getting familiar with the library

If you aren't familiar with Libcloud yet, I would recommend to first get
familiar with the library from the end user perspective. This means
installing and playing with it.

If you don't have a cloud account which you can use, you can Google for
DigitalOcean coupon or for a Rackspace developer discount which allows you
to use this services for free for a while.

2. Getting familiar with the code base

After you are familiar with the external API, I would recommend checking
the code (https://github.com/apache/libcloud).

To get some real life experience with the code base, usually the best thing
to start with is to add / contribute some extension methods (with tests) to
one of the providers we support.

3. DBaaS API

To get started with the DBaaS API, I would recommend checking and getting
familiar with the Amazon RDS and Rackspace RDS service.

IIRC, in 2012 one of the Rackspace interns in Blacksburg was working on
this as part of his intern project, but I don't know how much progress he
made (I wasn't his mentor). I will try to to find his Github fork.

After you are familiar with the API, you can start drafting a proposal.
Here are some examples:

-
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201109.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmLfWki5awUqZL9ZNsrpJFkHNHAe00Vs5SeaJXkmWSxJ7g@mail.gmail.com%3E
-
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201312.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmKOsFYJZDZQLb_Z2q1Rs8Ke%2B%2BxUNnqqEbPjyTccTgPYHQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
-
https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/libcloud-dev/201401.mbox/%3CCAJMHEmKKqhEhW2c1n3eroqCn-QXkc_G1gLnap60FO3DS_TLuzQ%40mail.gmail.com%3E
(ugh,
this thread seems to be messed up and I can't link or view the first
message)

(I also plan to update JIRA ticket with more information some time this
week).


On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 5:33 AM, kumar rishabh <sh...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am Kumar Rishabh a third year undergraduate student from India. I would
> like to participate in GSOC this year as a participant under libcloud
> project. I am pretty interested in Database As a Service API project.
>
> Please guide me how I can proceed with the same and give me some pointers
> to easy bugs so that I can get familiar with the code.
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Kumar Rishabh
> UG3, BTech CS+MS
> IIIT-Hyderabad
>