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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:23:26 -0300
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Subject: Re: Google SoC 2010
From: Pablo Cuadrado <pablocuadrado@gmail.com>
To: dev@cassandra.apache.org, gdusbabek@gmail.com
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Ok! That's new territory for me too.

As for the simulator, it's also best to test monitoring on a *real*
cluster, I have many machines around me all day...

Thanks for the support! It's really encouraging.

I'll be in touch.


On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Gary Dusbabek <gdusbabek@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:03, Pablo Cuadrado <pablocuadrado@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>>
>> This is a great date to start thinking around, from April's 1st to 5th
>> we have the easter holidays down here, so a lot of free time.
>>
>> Please tell me if some kind of "formal" application is needed, I will
>> evaluate the needs, goals, possible solutions (servlet, REST,
>> whatsoever) and try to deliver a rough (I couldn't stress ROUGH
>> enough...) roadmap thinking on the final deliverable desired.
>>
>
> I believe the Apache Foundation is already listed as a mentoring
> organization (I can't find a list anywhere though), so I think you
> just need to submit an application to gsoc.
> http://code.google.com/soc/
>
> I've never participated as a student or mentor, so this is new
> territory for me. =A0I can't speak for other devs, but I would be happy
> to look at your proposal before it goes to google and offer feedback.
>
>>
>> Also, just wondering: is the simulator reliable? for monitoring
>> testing purposes... anyway, I'm just jumping waaaay ahead...
>
> There was something submitted to a jira ticket a few months ago along
> this line, but it never made it into contrib and hasn't progressed
> afaik. =A0I wouldn't go that route. =A0It is pretty simple to bring up a
> test cluster on a dev machine anyway.
>
> Gary.
>