Hi Sergey! I'm happy to see that you have experience in MariaDB code base already. The MDEV-18827 is definitely up for grabs for GSoC 2022. The project is mostly a part-time project (requiring a commitment of around 175 hours), however depending on your availability we can increase the scope of the project and bump it up to a full time project. My suggestion for this task is to start looking at code parsing FRM files. Search for the function TABLE_SHARE::init_from_binary_frm_image to get an idea how an .frm is structured. After that, think how you would like to implement the feature described in MDEV-18827. Feel free to submit a draft proposal and we can iterate on it. Not 100% sure how the GSoC interface works this year, but last time you were able to share with potential mentors a Google Doc with the possibility to comment. Have a look at the proposal guidelines https://mariadb.org/gsoc2022-instructions/ and start writing it. When the program application opens you can submit it (4th of April). In the meantime, feel free to ask any questions you might have here. I encourage you to keep all discussions on the mailing list as much as possible so others can chime in. Vicențiu On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 at 09:54, Сергей Ваниславский <serzhmn@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Vicentiu! My name is Vanislavsky Sergey. Your colleague Nikita Malyavin recommended contacting you about GSoC.I would like to do your task MDEV-18827. I am a 3rd year student at FEFU. Here is my last pull request: https://github.com/MariaDB/server/pull/2016 Thank you for your consideration.