[Xapian-devel] Contributing to Xapian

[Olly Betts]

On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 02:26:11PM -0400, Manu Gupta wrote:
> I am Manu and recently came across the Xapian project. I will like to
> contribute to Xapian that gets me introduced to Information Retrieval.
> I have a basic knowledge of C++. Can you suggest me and help me choose
> a task that can be good for beginners.

The best first step is to check check out the Xapian code from git and
get it to build.

Once you've done that, I would suggest taking a look at our list of
"bite-size" projects:

http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/ProjectIdeas

If you don't find anything there of interest, give us clearer idea of
what some of thing you'd like to work on and maybe we can suggest
something.

Cheers,
    Olly