GSoC Summary

As the Google Summer of Code coding period comes to an end, I must write about what I have done, so here we go. My proposed tasks were:

The first two weeks were used on this task and on getting myself familiar with gocept.zeoraid codebase. As I said in my first report, I didn’t found anything wrong with the invalidation proccess when doing my tests, so I moved to another task.

Task 5

This was a reasonably easy one. My main problem was getting an automated test to prove the implementation. It’s hard to test a distributed system, and doing the setup is a little problematic; anyway, with help from my mentor, Christian Theune, I got a working test. My work is on this branch.

Task 4

This one was tricky. I had no “real world” experience on writing threads, so I stepped into many obvious bugs - joining threads, dealing with exception handling and such things. I’ve spent almost four weeks working on this task, but in the end I got it right. My work is on this branch.

Task 3

I started researching a bit about this task, but Christian said that task 2 was much more important, so I stopped working on it.

Task 2

My final task over the GSoC period. I started by writing a “add” command to the ZEORaid command-line tool, as I described in this report. It was easy to get this working for ClientStorage objects, but I needed to get it working with other types of storages too; some time later Christian said that it was only a “helper” for me to understand better the way that ZEORaid handles storages and openers.

I dropped this implementation and started working on reloading the entire config file. I got it working in a couple of days, but spent much more time than that working on an automated test for it. My work is on this branch.