[Xapian-devel] Project for a group of 5

[Siddhant Mutha]

Hi
We had discussed yesterday about taking up issue 596 (
http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/596) as our project.
As for our professors, they have approved it.
Now, with regard to moving forward, what should be our next step?

*Siddhant Mutha*
Undergraduate Student
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
IIT Madras
Chennai
http://www.siddhantmutha.com/ <http:/www.siddhantmutha.com/>


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 08:50:14PM +0530, Siddhant Mutha wrote:
> > We would like to do the project on improving Java bindings. It is a GSoC
> > project, although I guess we can take it up as such.
>
> The timing is rather problematic - we've had at least four students
> already express an interest in that project idea for GSoC, and at least
> one has put in a significant amount of research already.  I've no idea
> at this stage how many of those would result in proposals actually being
> submitted to us, or if any of the proposals would be good enough for us
> to want to accept, or how many slots we'll get from Google (I don't even
> know how many mentors we'll actually have).
>
> But if you're going to work on this, it doesn't seem sensible for
> someone to also be working on it as a GSoC project, so if we're going
> to do that we really need to withdraw the idea promptly and let the
> students who expressed an interest know and help them find other ideas
> to work on.  However, from below it seems you need to get agreement from
> your professor, so I'd guess we may not even know for a few more days.
>
> My preference would be to find you something which isn't on the GSoC
> list, or at least something which we've not had interest in yet so
> we can remove it without messing GSoC students around.
>
> Perhaps implementing bindings for Go (http://golang.org/) would be a
> good project for you?  It's an interesting language with some nice
> design ideas, and you'd probably find implementing a fresh set of
> bindings more interesting than trying to fix up the shortcomings of some
> existing bindings.
>
> > But before we go ahead, we would like to have some details as to how much
> > work it would be and also how would we evaluate the work done. (compare
> > test cases / compare java code with c++ code ?)
>
> For Java, you could also compare how compatible they are with the
> hand-wrapped JNI Java bindings, though I think "providing a clean
> Java-like API" is more important than such compatibility - there don't
> seem to be a lot of existing users of the Java bindings.
>
> > Is there any way in which we can quantify the improvements made to the
> API?
> >
> > Lets hope our prof agrees to this project. If not, we'll have to think of
> > something else.
>
> You could measure what proportion of C++ API methods can be used from
> Java or Go; also what proportion of wrapped methods are exercised by the
> testsuite of the Java or Go bindings.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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