Hi, Pablo! On Mar 06, Pablo Estrada wrote:
Although I am interested in software development, I am more interested in data analysis. That's why I switched from computer science to scientific computing, and that's why the project that interests me the most is the one called "Statistically optimize mysql-test runs by running less tests". I am very excited by the idea of using data to try to test more smartly.
Yes. You might also briefly review scientific publications in this area. I've found a few (it was a couple of years ago), but their approach was different from what is suggested here. Anyway, my preliminary experiments shows that it's totally possible to find 90% of test failures in only 10% of the time.
If it was not possible to participate in the latter project, I would also be interested to work on adding support for "OR REPLACE, CREATE IF NOT EXISTS and DROP IF EXISTS".
This is mostly a straightforward coding task, not much to explain here.
Depending on your feedback, I can get to work on a proposal for either one of the two projects. I'd be very happy to be able to participate in GSoC with MariaDB.
I'd recommend you to submit proposal for the first one. It seems like a better match for you, and also it seems like you will have less competition there. I'd expect more proposals for the second task. Regards, Sergei