[MinnowBoard] GSOC 2015: Student Introduction

[John Hawley]

On 03/04/2015 01:35 PM, hitesh ramani wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> Glad to see the response from your side.
> 
>> I'm actually rather curious what functionality you are extending in
> Postgres
> 
> Briefly, I'm trying to enhance the sorting code by exploiting
> parallelism, integrating it with the CUDA architecture.

Interesting, I'd be curious to know how well that works out in practice.

>> Best place to start is snagging a copy of the Tianocore EDK2 source code
>> and compiling it under Linux. From there you should start to see what
>> the problems are and start being able to understand the direction things
>> need to go in.
> 
> As you said, I've built the Tianocore EDK2 in my system. I will now
> begin the analysis for the problems, any starting points you can suggest
> or any known issues?

So places to start looking at / known issues:

- As you've seen the bash shell scripts are sourced and not executed,
this presents a number of problems and headaches, and we should really
move away from this
- Defaults need to be better chosen and override-able
- It would be fantastic to include bash completion (though this is a bit
of a stretch goal)
- Checking for consistency, we've seen a number of things where
variables get declared but never used, miss-spelling of variable names,
etc doing basic clean up on that would be nice.

That's the high level stuff right now, I'm sure as we dig into it more
more things will fall out as we go and further clean-ups would be good.

- John