Re: [htdig-dev] Interested in Developing for this project.

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005, Abhijit Joshi wrote:

> Hello Experienced Developers,
> With all due respect to your experience in developing for this project
> and knowledge, I would like to ask one question.
> I am an interetsed candidate wanting to contribute to this project. I
> have never contributed to any open source project. But I have to start
> somewhere. I chose this project becasue of two reasons, 1) My interest
> education and theretical understaing of Information retrieval systems.
> 2) I want start developing rather than just having theoretical knowledge.
> I get ovewhelemed when I see such a huge project. What Is the approch
> that I should follow when trying to understand and then contribute to
> this project. If you can point me to certain steps, that will be
> appreciated. If you would like more information about this. Please let
> me know.

   The first step is to get it installed and compiled and learn about how 
HtDig is configured.  The step after that is to run it in a debugger and 
get a feel for the flow of the code.

   You are certainly welcome to participate and contribute code.

   HtDig's core design is fairly old, and there is lots of interesting new 
IR research out there.  This is good in that there is tons of low hanging
fruit to make good improvements.

   Code contributions of all kinds are welcome.

   Thanks

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