[Xapian-discuss] GSoC 2012

[Justin Finkelstein]

There're two things I'd like to suggest that aren't on the list:

    1. An queueing system, to eliminate or work around the one-writer at
a time issue
    2. A web service front-end, handling queries via GET, CRUD
operations via POST containing XML

The idea being to bring Xapian a bit more in-line with some of the other
search appliances and to make adoption easier.
I'm not sure how these would fit into the Xapian ethos, but it's
something I'd like to see developed.

On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 05:38 +0000, Olly Betts wrote:

> Google have announced their "Summer of Code" for this year - for
> background info see:
> 
> http://code.google.com/soc/
> 
> We took part last year with great success, and after a brief discussion
> with those who mentored last year, we concluded it was worthwhile
> applying to take part again.
> 
> I'm happy to act as admin again and submit the application.
> 
> I've updated of the list of project ideas for students on the wiki from
> last year, removing those done tackled last year, and updating those
> where work has been done outside GSoC:
> 
> http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoCProjectIdeas
> 
> If you're interested in acting as a mentor for one of the ideas there,
> or have an idea for a project with a scope suitable for a student to
> complete in about 12 weeks, please update that page.  Ideas without a
> potential mentor aren't very useful though, so being willing to mentor
> your new idea is helpful.
> 
> Ideas don't have to be for work on Xapian itself - projects related to
> Xapian in other software are within scope.  A wider range of project
> ideas will give us a broader appeal to students.
> 
> Mentoring organisation applications open on 27th Feb, close on March 9th,
> and are reviewed until 15th with accepted orgs announced on 16th, so
> getting the ideas list into excellent shape before March 9th is the
> target - a little over 3 weeks away (Google indicate a good list of
> ideas is a key factor in deciding which orgs to select).  You can still
> add and improve ideas after that of course.
> 
> If you are a student eligible for GSoC and interested in working on
> Xapian, please feel free to get in touch.  You're welcome to propose
> your own project idea rather than being restricted to what's on the
> list.
> 
> If you want to discuss being a mentor or a student, or a project idea,
> you can do so on the mailing list or on #xapian on freenode (if you
> aren't already an IRC user, see http://trac.xapian.org/wiki/GSoC_IRC for
> links to a web IRC client).
> 
> There's also a general GSoC IRC channel #gsoc on freenode.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly
> 
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