GSoC 2016 Project: Implement Bindings for R

[Amanda Jayanetti]

Thanks a lot for the feedback James. Will work on the suggested
improvements and upload a better version soon. For now, I'll upload the
same proposal in GSoC website.

Regards,
Amanda

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:47 PM, James Aylett <james-xapian at tartarus.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:47:29AM +0530, Amanda Jayanetti wrote:
>
> > Here's a link to my project proposal,
> >
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwR_mIaYtm8TT1U1S2dLbFlDUzQ/view?usp=sharing
>
> Hi, Amanda. The GSoC website is now open for applications, so it would
> be good if you could add this to there. (We don't have any yet, so I
> don't really know how this will work -- sorry for asking you to be our
> guineapig!)
>
> It would be good to see some more detail for each of the pieces you've
> broken the project down into; at the moment I don't know what a couple
> of them will actually involve (eg the 'from Wikipedia' functionality
> -- I can guess roughly what you're intending, but it would be good to
> see something more concrete).
>
> I don't really believe that wrapping the (document) 'delete'
> functionality (which is one method) will take the same time as
> implementing faceted search (which will at the least involve wrapping
> a few classes, and may involve the ability to subclass in R, depending
> on how much you want to support). Putting more detail into each step
> (either within the timeline, or in the project details, it doesn't
> really matter) should make it clearer which bits are more complex.
>
> > There's an upcoming release at my internship place, so I'm kind of busy
> > with some work here, however I will manage to develop a prototype before
> > the end of this month, I hope that will strengthen my proposal.
>
> I'd recommend working on your proposal first, as above, in case you
> don't have time for more than that on top of your internship.
>
> J
>
> --
>   James Aylett, occasional trouble-maker
>   xapian.org
>
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