Re: [GSoC] Some questions regarding 'Sending random data crashes Thrift service'

[Bryan Duxbury <br...@rapleaf.com>]

Rajeev -

It may turn out to be a simple solution or it may not. The problem is that I
don't think anyone knows what the best approach is just yet.

I'd certainly love to have someone dedicate time to fixing this problem, as
would many other Thrifters, clearly. I'd be glad to mentor this project if
you need one.

On a side note, if this project doesn't seem like it'd be sufficient, I'm
sure we could find something else Thrift-related for you to work on all
summer. Send me an email directly if you'd like to explore this alternative.

-Bryan

On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Rajeev Sampath <rj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a Computer Science student and I saw the issue 'Sending random data
> crashes Thrift service'  [1]  has been tagged as a possible GSoC project. I
> saw there have already been many suggestions on how to fix it, though it
> seems not fixed yet. I'd like to know whether there is someone working on
> this issue or is it open to be a GSoC project.
>
> I also had a glace at the patches submitted to JIRA on this issue and I'm
> not quite sure whether the scale of this idea will be enough for a GSoC
> project unless there's a need to re-implement the message
> reading/processing
> parts with a different approach. Does it seem to be the case? Any
> clarifications?
>
> I'm not yet familiar with the specifics of Thrift, but I have been involved
> in implementing a somewhat similar framework (a basic purpose-built
> framework which was more similar to Avro) during my internship period at
> Mubasher [2], so I hope I'll be able to catch-up and I would like to start
> working on this idea if someone from Thrift community is willing to
> mentor/co-mentor this as a GSoC project, as this idea seems to be
> interesting.
>
>
> Thanks.
> Rajeev
>
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-601
> [2] http://www.mubasher.net/en/
>