[Xapian-discuss] Want to contribute code to the Xapian project

[Dan Colish]

I concur. I'm very sorry the initial reply on this thread was so negative. Hopefully no one was discouraged by it. Our attitude has always been to support new community members regardless of their backgrounds. This has not changed. Please ask any and all questions you have. 

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Dan

On Dec 10, 2012, at 12:29, Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net> wrote:

> On 10/12/2012 18:02, Kevin Duraj wrote:
>> You still need to go to school, and you will know when you ready, when you will teach us how to make search engines.
>> 
>> Kevin Duraj
>> http://myhealthcare.com/
> 
> I've no idea what Kevin is talking about but I do know that anyone wanting to contribute to Xapian is welcome: for example Xapian has been involved several times with the Google Summer of Code. As someone else has already mentioned the list of projects from this is one place to start, as is http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/HelpWanted . The main devs sit on the #xapian channel on IRC so you might start by joining that and saying hello (there's another channel and email list for development-related stuff which they can tell you about).
> 
> Regarding IR, the classic book is Managing Gigabytes http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/ but there are plenty more: here's a good list http://www.intranetfocus.com/enterprise-search/books-and-reports covering most aspects of enterprise search including some on IR.
> 
> Do ask if there's anything else we can do to help you contribute!
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Charlie
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:41 AM, aarsh shah <aarshkshah1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey guys,I am a 3rd year Computer Science undergrad student.I a extremely
>>> interested in contributing code to the XAPIAN project. The work you people
>>> do sounds extremely fascinating and interesting.Can someone just give me a
>>> brief overview of how to proceed ?. I Can code in C,C++ and Python and
>>> have  experience in Natural Lanuage Processing.Am also quite comfortable
>>> with NLTK and using  Wordnet.Am also good a matrix algebra and probability
>>> theory. However,am new to Information Retrieval and would really appreciate
>>> if someone could give me some help on how to start with IR.Thanks .
>>> 
>>> -Aarsh Shah
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