[Xapian-devel] GSOC 2011 : Weighting Schemes

[Sumith Matharage]

Hi Olly,

Thanks. I will get the code and start working on it. I will contact you soon
as I have questions.

Thanks,
Sumith

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 3:08 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:49:07AM +1100, Sumith Matharage wrote:
> > At the same time since I haven't used Xapian before, thought of
> > get familiarize with that too.
> >
> > What is your input on that? Any suggestions to improve my knowledge in
> this
> > project?
>
> If you haven't already, I'd suggest starting by checking the latest code
> out from the version control system (either svn or git) and getting it
> to build.  The place to start is:
>
> http://xapian.org/bleeding
>
> You'll need to be able to work from one of the VCSes for the project, so
> you might as well start now.
>
> Once you have it building, just start to have a poke around.  There are
> documentation comments for the public API and a lot of internal things
> too, and there's a collection of documentation of internal things here:
>
> http://xapian.org/docs/internals.html
>
> If you're wanting something productive to do which would help you
> get to grips with the code, you could take a look at the coverage report
> (which measures how much of the code gets exercised by "make check") and
> see if you can manage to add a new testcase which exercises some code
> which isn't currently exercised.  There's a current report here:
>
> http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/lcov/
>
> Feel free to ask if you've any questions.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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