[Xapian-devel] GSoC Gmane improvements

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 09:28:02AM +0300, ????????? ??????? wrote:
> I'm Tatiana Merkulova, third-year student at Moscow State University,
> Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics.

Hello.

> I'm interested in the 'Gmane Search improvements' project.
> I have strong background in C++ and unix system programming. I have
> some perl-knowledge, but I'm not its active user. Anyway, I think it
> wouldn't take much time to learn it in detail. 

There are some Perl scripts involved currently, but the real work is
done in C++, so Perl skills aren't vital, just a bonus.

> I would like to know Olly Betts'  vision of this project. Proposed
> tasks in this field and their priority for Xapian.

I guess the overall vision is simply to make the search better.

The entry in the ideas list has the things that I could think of which
would be useful enhancements, but there are undoubtedly others too.

Some of the improvements may need tweaks which can get fed back to
Xapian, but I wouldn't worry too much about trying to quantify benefit
to Xapian when putting your proposal together.  Gmane's search has
served as a good demo of what Xapian can do, and continues to do so, so
improving it in general will indirectly benefit Xapian.

Cheers,
    Olly