Xapian devel - Jun 2015 - Student looking to contribute toward Xapian

Hello everyone,

I have recently completed my engineering in Computer Science. I came across
Xapian while looking for GSoC organisations. I was browsing through the
ideas page and it was written that you would be willing to mentor anyone
interested in working on those projects. I am interested in this:
http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank  and
this: http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:WeightingSchemes.

I can program fairly well in Python, Java, C++ and Scheme. I have taken
courses in Machine Learning and Data Mining. My major project was in NLP so
I have fair knowledge of that field too.


What project should I choose and how should I get started?

Thank you,
Rohit Shinde.
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On 27 Jun 2015, at 12:51, Rohit Shinde <rohit.shinde12194 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have recently completed my engineering in Computer Science. I came across
Xapian while looking for GSoC organisations. I was browsing through the ideas
page and it was written that you would be willing to mentor anyone interested in
working on those projects. I am interested in
this:http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:LearningtoRank  and
this: http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas#Project:WeightingSchemes.
> 
> I can program fairly well in Python, Java, C++ and Scheme. I have taken
courses in Machine Learning and Data Mining. My major project was in NLP so I
have fair knowledge of that field too.
> 
> What project should I choose and how should I get started?
Hi, Rohit! Weighting schemes are probably easier to contribute to straight away,
as there are still a lot of different projects on LTR that haven?t been merged
together, so there?s a risk you?d want to build on features that aren?t all
available in the same codebase.

To get started, follow the GSoC Guide (http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC%20Guide)
as much as possible ? in particular it recommends getting comfortable with the
codebase, fixing a small bug or two or adding a small feature, and has
recommendations on how to plan out a project such as adding a new weighting
scheme. (Having a plan is good practice for anything, not just GSoC!)

Best,
James

-- 
 James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
 xapian.org