Hello Sergei, Elena and everyone,
I'm Pablo, and I was selected as part of Google Summer of Code 2014 to work on the project "Statistically optimize mysql-test runs by running less tests". First of all, thank you very much for having selected me for the project. I am very excited to start reading, reviewing data and coding up.

I see that Elena will be my mentor. Nice to meet you Elena : )

To begin with, I am focusing on the Buildbot documentation, to (1)understand how the data is organized inside it, and to (2)figure out how to add the extra functionality into the BuildBot.

I want to get started with the data analysis, so it would be great if you could help me with the following things:
  1. Sergei, you said you did a bit of research into this. Do you have your previous results, or any papers that you have read that you could suggest to me?
  2. Can I get access to the buildbot database to look at the data? If not, can I get the E/R model, or any scheme of how the data looks like?
    • I understand that maybe the data is not just a single database. I am starting by reading the buildbot documentation, to understand how the stuff is organized in it.
  3. Any other information that you consider useful for me to know? Any advice?
And that's all I have for now. I'm looking forward to getting started!

Regards
Pablo