Hi, I am a 3rd year Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Currently I?m working as a software engineering intern at Millennium Information Technologies, and my internship concludes on April 18th. I?m very much interested in the project "Implement Bindings for R" since it is somewhat similar to one of the tasks that I?m presently engaged in, at the aforementioned company. The task involves developing a C++ wrapper for R (Rcpp and RInside packages are used), such that R functionality can be accessed via a particular interface in company?s development framework. As suggested in your guide, I have already started building the code and familiarizing myself with Xapian API. Your guidance on further proceedings would be much appreciated. Eagerly looking forward to working with Xapian! Regards, Amanda Jayanetti -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20160308/c2cf643a/attachment.html>
On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:53:04PM +0530, Amanda Jayanetti wrote:> I'm very much interested in the project "Implement Bindings for R" > since it is somewhat similar to one of the tasks that I'm presently > engaged in. As suggested in your guide, I have already started > building the code and familiarizing myself with Xapian API. Your > guidance on further proceedings would be much appreciated.Hi, Amanda -- welcome to Xapian! It sounds like you're starting in exactly the way I'd recommend, getting familiar with the code and API. There aren't any 'bite size' projects that are particularly suitable ahead of working on language bindings, so you're probably better off working through the getting started guide and maybe writing some little programs yourself so you're comfortable with Xapian in general. We recommend that you start writing your application as soon as possible, and share drafts with us early so we can give you feedback and assistance in writing the best possible proposal. As the project description notes, likely the main choice you have to make early on is which tool to use to help in creating the bindings. Hopefully your experience will help you here! If you have any more questions, please do ask away. J -- James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker xapian.org
Hi James, As you suggested I started developing a project proposal and have currently completed the "Project Details and Project Implementation" sections. It'd be great if you could kindly give me some feedback on it. Also should I send it via this public mailing list or is there any other means of sending it to you? Regards, Amanda Jayanetti On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:51 PM, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org> wrote:> On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 10:53:04PM +0530, Amanda Jayanetti wrote: > > > I'm very much interested in the project "Implement Bindings for R" > > since it is somewhat similar to one of the tasks that I'm presently > > engaged in. As suggested in your guide, I have already started > > building the code and familiarizing myself with Xapian API. Your > > guidance on further proceedings would be much appreciated. > > Hi, Amanda -- welcome to Xapian! > > It sounds like you're starting in exactly the way I'd recommend, > getting familiar with the code and API. There aren't any 'bite size' > projects that are particularly suitable ahead of working on language > bindings, so you're probably better off working through the getting > started guide and maybe writing some little programs yourself so > you're comfortable with Xapian in general. > > We recommend that you start writing your application as soon as > possible, and share drafts with us early so we can give you feedback > and assistance in writing the best possible proposal. As the project > description notes, likely the main choice you have to make early on is > which tool to use to help in creating the bindings. Hopefully your > experience will help you here! > > If you have any more questions, please do ask away. > > J > > -- > James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker > xapian.org > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20160311/2b6d61a6/attachment.html>