[Xapian-discuss] GSoC 2012

[Olly Betts]

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 01:26:55PM -0800, Liam wrote:
> You've mentioned reading archive files in omindex before, I believe it was
> your rationale for a stream-based API (vs filename) to the Mime2Text
> library I've started on. So I was surprised not to see it listed.

It's not intended to be an exhaustive list of every idea someone would
like to see implemented.

The purpose of the list is to attract students to work with us (and as
a first step for Google to select us as an org because they think
students will want to work with us).

So we really want a sensible length list of varied project ideas which
will appeal to students and will hopefully take them an appropriate
amount of work to implement.

And it's better if the ideas don't involve extensive changes to the
same parts of the code as each other, as that means a painful merge
if both projects get done.  So we probably don't want one student
working on indexing container formats while another works on using
extraction libraries.  Perhaps one student could work on a project
covering both though.

We also need at least one person willing to mentor each project idea
(otherwise it's pointless to offer it), and ideally we don't want the
same person as the only potential mentor for many ideas, as it means
we can only really select one application among those ideas.

> I should just edit the wiki page?

Yes, or else post a draft here if you prefer.

Cheers,
    Olly