From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS3215 2.6.0.0/16 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from out1.vger.email (out1.vger.email [IPv6:2620:137:e000::1:20]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA73D1F4CE for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2022 20:46:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S234402AbiDHUsQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:48:16 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:48280 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232086AbiDHUsO (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:48:14 -0400 Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (pb-smtp21.pobox.com [173.228.157.53]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C25CF3B67A3 for ; Fri, 8 Apr 2022 13:46:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4196F1899F4; Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:46:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=hE11rDzifgIUsn3+bKFWRTEYT37cbsGEez73FW LqBe8=; b=T2Hg0ow3Ss7sSE4oasYzRw2iNBOo0zxC4bpDgkyocUgM4hhWupZNoA WUXMEW0QNMTJE9VA9KoTKTPd9PZ8OKbhbWawnmzeu+hsM0D10XuwXsvzyGIvGC87 zDaFkNyiHswxgt766Y8VWW9KqJDDO6QkBgoohmkuEJN0T5J65Y/No= Received: from pb-smtp21.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A52F1899F3; Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:46:09 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [35.185.214.157]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C4701899F0; Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:46:06 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Taylor Blau Cc: Christian Couder , Kaartic Sivaraam , Plato Kiorpelidis , git , Shubham Mishra , Christian Couder Subject: Re: [GSoC] Contributor candidate introduction References: Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:46:05 -0700 In-Reply-To: (Taylor Blau's message of "Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:34:11 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E9ACD2B0-B77C-11EC-88F6-CBA7845BAAA9-77302942!pb-smtp21.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Taylor Blau writes: > My thinking is roughly that of the sub-projects listed: > > - investigate replacing EWAH with Roaring+Run > - add a "table of contents" to the .bitmap file > - append-only bitmap generation > - amorphous / larger related projects > > ...the first two both require serious (re-)consideration of the .bitmap > format, and I don't think it's possible to split that up among multiple > GSoC projects. Yeah, also I doubt that bitmap stakeholders want to assign such a centrally important design task to an apprentice, even with a competent mentor or two. > The "append-only" project is interesting, but probably not large enough > for a GSoC student to occupy their time with completely. I have to preface this with the fact I always am the one that is the least optimistic about the timeline, but "append-only" somehow sounds like a project with an interesting enough size and complexity to me. Just my two cents. (me goes back to preparation of -rc1)