[Xapian-devel] Summer of Code help

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:18:50PM +0530, Anish Kanchan wrote:
> With the #616 bug now solved, I would like to solve more bugs.

Did you send a patch or pull request for those changes?  I can't see
either.

> Could you please give me links of those.

There's this (as linked from the project idea):
http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/46

Looking at providing Java iterators would be useful (there's no ticket
for this).  Dan did some work towards this, and a few other things,
which you can find here:

https://github.com/dcolish/xapian/tree/java-fixes

> Also the as Xapian Java Bindings project is supposed to be too simple, I'm
> thinking of working on PHP Bindings improvement as well.

I think this got answered on IRC, but yes there's not really enough to
the Java bindings project alone, so you'd probably need to combine it
with something else.

> And what else could I do to strengthen my chances of getting selected in
> GSoC?

A few good quality patches are useful, as they give us an insight into
what you skills are and how your work.

The proposal is also important of course.  There are some tips here:
http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC%20Guide#Writingyourproposal

The GSoC Student Guide has a lot of useful advice too:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/

Cheers,
    Olly