The curtain fell on TiDB Hackathon 2020, but hacking never stops. After two days of fierce competition, TiDB Hackathon 2020 ended up with many star projects, such as UDF (a user-defined function framework based on WASM), TiGraph (a graph database on TiDB), and zh.md (an automatic language lint tool for Chinese documents). Developers have built a rich open-source ecosystem around TiDB and greatly improved TiDB’s performance.
To move things forward, PingCAP is now launching an 8-week TiDB Hacking Camp, an incubation program to actually land these projects in the community.
During the camp, each participating project will be paired with a community mentor. Together they will lay out a practical landing plan for the project, which will be followed through during the camp. Each team is required to present their project progress to the community periodically. At the end of the camp, each project will be evaluated by its mentor to determine whether it is ready to graduate. All members of graduated projects will win customized TiDB gifts for their great work.
Participants and benefits
- TiDB Hackathon 2020 projects
- TiDB ecosystem partners
- Individual developers who are familiar with Rust, Go and distributed systems
- TiDB Hackathon 2020 projects & TiDB ecosystem partners: Send an email to zhangyanqing@pingcap.com and note “Hacking Camp”.
- Individual developers: Join the corresponding Slack channel or WeChat group of each project.
- February 23, 2021: Open Call & Sign-up
- May 15–20, 2021: Project Milestones Presentation I
- April 20–25, 2021: Project Milestones Presentation II
- April 28, 2021: Hacking Camp Graduation Ceremony
- Guidance from experienced mentors
- Open-source collaboration experience.
- Marketing campaign and promotion for the project.
- Customized TiDB gifts.
- Honor of becoming an open-source project maintainer.
Timeline
- February 23, 2021: Open Call & Sign-up
- May 15–20, 2021: Project Milestones Presentation I
- April 20–25, 2021: Project Milestones Presentation II
- April 28, 2021: Hacking Camp Graduation Ceremony
Shortlisted projects (first batch)
Team Name: ‘ or 0=0 or ‘
UDF is a user-defined function engine. With UDF, users can write customized functions to realize complex execution logic in TiDB and directly run these functions in the database, which allows them to do more things on the TiDB platform.
Team Name: B.A.D
TiDE is a Visual Studio Code extension for TiDB, which allows developers to develop TiDB clusters and debug locally or remotely without knowing the internal mechanism of TiDB. It greatly improves developers’ experience of developing and debugging TiDB projects.
Team Name: zhangyushao
Ching-wei is a continuous integration (CI) tool which smartly reproduces bug issues in TiDB and proactively tag them before any manual efforts. The tool can also link each issue with an environment to facilitate the later manual recheck by the developer.
Team Name: zh.md
zh.md is a lint tool for Chinese documentation. Based on the abstract syntax trees and word segmentation, it automatically scans the documentation to diagnose existing issues and evaluate the quality. It uses statistics and NLP tools to assist writers to write style-compliant documents.
Team Name: Ti-Improve
Ti-Improve is a test tool for TiDB. Based on AWS infrastructures, it uses S3 to store backup files, Lambda to execute specific tests, CodePipeline to schedule the execution, CloudWatch to observe TiDB’s performance, and Chaos Mesh® to inject faults.
“Wish our community hackers from all over the world a fun journey with these TiDB projects!”
Words from Mentors
“May zh.md help Chinese technical writers work 10 times more efficiently.”
Shawn Ma | ‘ or 0=0 or ‘
“Nothing’s impossible to a willing mind.”
Bing Duan | zh.md
“These projects will fully boost the PingCAP community and attract more like-minded partners to hack together!”
Jinlong Liu | TiDE
“We hope Ti-Improve could be production ready soon because it will greatly improve the QA efficiency for the whole community.”
Yulong Zhai | zhangyushao
Liyuan Feng | Ti-Imporve
Come and join us in the TiDB Hacking Camp, and have fun hacking!
Originally published at https://en.pingcap.com.
