On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 06:20:21AM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:> > Can I start with trying to implement this? > > Sure - there's really no need to ask permission to work on something.It's probably helpful to create a ticket and claim it (and update the project ideas list to link to it), so other people don't try to work on it as well. (I have a feeling that it might have been among the things Nirmal was looking at, but I'm not sure what the state of that was.) This is mentioned in our draft developer guide (https://xapian-developer-guide.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing/new-contributors.html#picking-something-to-start-with), but that's a very recent thing so I don't expect anyone to have actually found it by themselves. (I strongly recommend reading through it, along with xapian-core/HACKING, as there are some useful tips that will help you get your work ready for review and merge.) J -- James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker xapian.org
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:41:02AM +0100, James Aylett wrote:> It's probably helpful to create a ticket and claim it (and update the > project ideas list to link to it), so other people don't try to work > on it as well. (I have a feeling that it might have been among the > things Nirmal was looking at, but I'm not sure what the state of that > was.)Oh sorry, I'd not spotted that. The main purpose of the exercise is to get students familiar with the code and procedures, but getting features implemented and issues addressed is a nice bonus. So duplication isn't terrible, but it is better to try to avoid it. Cheers, Olly
On Mar 29, 2016 4:49 PM, "Olly Betts" <olly at survex.com> wrote:> > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 11:41:02AM +0100, James Aylett wrote: > > It's probably helpful to create a ticket and claim it (and update the > > project ideas list to link to it), so other people don't try to work > > on it as well. (I have a feeling that it might have been among the > > things Nirmal was looking at, but I'm not sure what the state of that > > was.) > > Oh sorry, I'd not spotted that. > > The main purpose of the exercise is to get students familiar with the > code and procedures, but getting features implemented and issues > addressed is a nice bonus. So duplication isn't terrible, but it is > better to try to avoid it. >I've created a new ticket and assigned it to myself. I'll also update the project ideas list and provide the link to this ticket there shortly. I'm sorry about going wrong with the pcre_exec return values. I reversed it by mistake. I'll start working on this by tomorrow and try to get it tested on my system and then stage it for a merge within this week! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/attachments/20160329/179b830f/attachment.html>