Xapian devel - Nov 2014 - Contributing to Xapian

Hi All

I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to
contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval.
I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose
a task that can be good for beginners.

Thanks a lot

Best Regards
Manu Gupta

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:26:11PM -0400, Manu Gupta
wrote:
> I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to
> contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval.
> I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose
> a task that can be good for beginners.
The best first step is to check check out the Xapian code from git and
get it to build.

Once you've done that, I would suggest taking a look at our list of
"bite-size" projects:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas

If you don't find anything there of interest, give us clearer idea of
what some of thing you'd like to work on and maybe we can suggest
something.

Cheers,
    Olly

Hi Olly

I will try to work on :
http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank

I will be taking a Machine Learning class the next semester and I hope that
this project will help me supplement my learning in Machine Learning and
also gain a bit of knowledge in IR.

If you can give me ideas on how to get around with the code for LTR
project, it will be awesome. I can look at it and get back to you.

Thanks again!!!

Best Regards
Manu Gupta

On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:24 PM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:26:11PM -0400, Manu Gupta wrote:
> > I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to
> > contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval.
> > I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose
> > a task that can be good for beginners.
>
> The best first step is to check check out the Xapian code from git and
> get it to build.
>
> Once you've done that, I would suggest taking a look at our list of
> "bite-size" projects:
>
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas
>
> If you don't find anything there of interest, give us clearer idea of
> what some of thing you'd like to work on and maybe we can suggest
> something.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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