[Xapian-discuss] GSoC 2014

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 05:55:53PM +0000, James Aylett wrote:
> I'm available as a mentor again this year, and I'm particularly
> interested in ways we can integrate Xapian with other projects.

Sounds good.

> I'll try to add a couple of specific things that would be worth
> looking at (possibly including improvements to existing integrations
> such as Rails & Django-Haystack), but if there's anyone out there
> itching to add Xapian-powered search (or Xapian-powered something
> else, for that matter) to their favourite tool, framework, CMS or
> whatever, then let's talk and get a concrete idea up on our projects
> list (if you aren't eligible as a GSoC student then you probably are
> as a mentor, and I'm more than happy to work with potential mentors
> from outside Xapian to get this kind of thing in shape).

I've added a generic "integrate Xapian with an application or framework"
project to the ideas list for now, so students will know this is an
option.  If there are specific examples people are keen to mentor,
please add those too.

Cheers,
    Olly