Hi all, Thanks a lot for your suggestions! I believe the current lucene code repository is https://github.com/apache/lucene-solr/tree/trunk/lucene
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Jack Krupansky <jack.krupan...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 for starting with unit tests - they show you how things work, give you > something to step through in the debugger, are (or should be!) always > current, and are a great place to start for contributing code, like > improving coverage and optimizing coverage. Commenting code and enhancing > the Javadoc is always a great contribution. > > > -- Jack Krupansky > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > You really have to just pick a problem, dive into the code and learn > > it bit by bit through exploration. The code base changes fast enough > > that anything published will be out of date in short order. > > > > Here's a suggestion: Take a look at the coverage reports for unit > > tests, pick some code that doesn't have coverage and write a test. > > Believe me, that'll get you familiar with _something_ pretty quickly, > > and something like that provides a focus. It's a mistake to try to > > understand all of Lucene IMO, that'll take years. > > > > FWIW, > > Erick > > > > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Adrien Grand <jpou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Gimantha, > > > > > > There is no recent book. However, there is some interesting content > > > that you can find about Lucene and Solr internals scattered in blog > > > posts and conference presentations. I would recommend having a look at > > > Mike's blog http://blog.mikemccandless.com/ and videos of Lucene > > > Revolution, ApacheCon and BerlinBuzzwords which regularly get a fair > > > amount of Lucene/Solr-related talks. > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Gimantha Bandara <giman...@wso2.com> > > wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> I am willing to contribute to Lucene project. I have already been > > referring > > >> to "Lucene in Action" 2nd edition recently. But I think it is > outdated. > > It > > >> is based on lucene 3.0.x I guess. Even through online resources, it is > > very > > >> hard to learn the internals of lucene because of the lack of > up-to-date > > >> resources. Can someone recommend a recently released book on lucene > > >> internals or has someone planned to write one? What would be the > > starting > > >> point if I need to learn the internals of Lucene? > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Gimantha Bandara > > >> Software Engineer > > >> WSO2. Inc : http://wso2.com > > >> Mobile : +94714961919 > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Adrien > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > -- Gimantha Bandara Software Engineer WSO2. Inc : http://wso2.com Mobile : +94714961919
