Xapian devel - Nov 2014 - Willing to Join Xapian.

I am willing to work for Xapian . I'm a fourth year undergraduate Student ,
I have done my elimentary course on machine learning algorithm .
I am also familiar with C/C++ and basis Python,HTML,CSS,Javascript .
Please suggest what all do I need to learn or read so as to start
contributing to the open source community of Xapian . As an amateur and as
per your free slots what project form the idea's page should I work on ?
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On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 07:53:01PM +0530, Priyank Bhatt
wrote:
> I am willing to work for Xapian . I'm a fourth year undergraduate
Student ,
> I have done my elimentary course on machine learning algorithm .
> I am also familiar with C/C++ and basis Python,HTML,CSS,Javascript .
> Please suggest what all do I need to learn or read so as to start
> contributing to the open source community of Xapian . As an amateur and as
> per your free slots what project form the idea's page should I work on
?
If by "free slots" you mean student slots for GSoC, then it's far
too
early to talk about that - mentoring orgs don't get allocated slots
until April 15th next year:

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015

If you read the timeline, you'll see that mentoring orgs don't even
apply to take part until February 9th 2015, so at this point we can't
say for certain that Xapian will even be taking part next year - no
mentoring org knows currently.  We are planning to apply, and the
feedback our students give is generally very positive, so I think it's
likely we'll get a place, but it is competitive - last year 371 orgs
applied and 190 were accepted.

As for how to get started, first step is to check out the code from
our git repo and get it to build.

Once you've done that, you want to start getting familiar with the code,
so pick something small you find interesting and try to do it.  There
are some "bite-size" ideas on the wiki:

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

Cheers,
    Olly

Hello,
As mentioned on the project ideas page ,  I would like to work on *improving
Python Bindings* , I have basic hands on experience in Python and
sufficient knowledge in C++ , I started with looking at the resource
provided on Project ideas page ,So anyone can further guide me on this
project.Also further i would like to work on small idea like
Replace *atoi with atol* . Can somebody guide me on this where exactly we
need to modify these statements.



On 11 November 2014 at 03:35, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 07:53:01PM +0530, Priyank Bhatt wrote:
> > I am willing to work for Xapian . I'm a fourth year undergraduate
> Student ,
> > I have done my elimentary course on machine learning algorithm .
> > I am also familiar with C/C++ and basis Python,HTML,CSS,Javascript .
> > Please suggest what all do I need to learn or read so as to start
> > contributing to the open source community of Xapian . As an amateur
and
> as
> > per your free slots what project form the idea's page should I
work on ?
>
> If by "free slots" you mean student slots for GSoC, then it's
far too
> early to talk about that - mentoring orgs don't get allocated slots
> until April 15th next year:
>
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2015
>
> If you read the timeline, you'll see that mentoring orgs don't even
> apply to take part until February 9th 2015, so at this point we can't
> say for certain that Xapian will even be taking part next year - no
> mentoring org knows currently.  We are planning to apply, and the
> feedback our students give is generally very positive, so I think it's
> likely we'll get a place, but it is competitive - last year 371 orgs
> applied and 190 were accepted.
>
> As for how to get started, first step is to check out the code from
> our git repo and get it to build.
>
> Once you've done that, you want to start getting familiar with the
code,
> so pick something small you find interesting and try to do it.  There
> are some "bite-size" ideas on the wiki:
>
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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