Harsh; I?ve copied this to the mailing list, where more people can help you, and
others can benefit from any questions you ask.
> Coming to the point, I am currently doing a PhD in BioNLP and Biomedical
text mining. During this year's summer vacation I came across the Xapian
project with a reference from Parth Gupta (He has been a contributor a couple of
years back) and found it very interesting, as well as well aligned with my
research interests. Parth and I met at FIRE conference year earlier where we
discussed about the xapian community. I am following your work on Github since a
couple of weeks, and i wish to join you wonderful in contributing to the
community. I have forked both the docsprint and xapian git repositories and
started playing around with it.
>
> I personally feel Xapian is doing a fantastic job in information retrieval
particularly. Since you are one of the senior contributors, It would be really
great if you could include me in your developers team and give me a head-start
from where to start :)
The best place to start is here: <http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted>,
where we list various things that could do with attention, from documentation to
bugs and new feature development. Pull requests on github are a good way of
getting code changes back to us, both for documentation and code (new features
will probably include both).
You should read the HACKING file in xapian-core, both so you?re aware of various
helpful features of the build system and because it has some useful information
on coding standards and so forth which should make your first changes to Xapian
a smoother process.
Welcome!
J
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