Hi Marvin,
> We have a wiki page up that covers the mechanics of contributing:
> http://wiki.apache.org/lucy/HowToContribute
Excellent. I'll checkout the code and start reading on monday!
> Most people choose what they want to work on based on what they need or what
> interests them. Since you don't mention wanting to work on a particular
> problem, there are a some general C tasks we could use help on and that don't
> require a lot of prior knowledge about the code base; I'll describe one of
> those.
To be honest, I've no knowledge on how Lucene core is implemented.
But I'm pretty confident when coding in C (portabilty, clarity, refactoring
...).
More over I've strong background on algorithms and algorithms optimization.
> A lot of Lucy code was originally written for C89. We have since changed our
> C dialect to "the overlap of C99 and C++".
> allowing us to use a number of idioms which result in cleaner, more readable
> code. One of these is the
> declaration of loop variables within a "for" construct:
>
> Index: core/Lucy/Object/VArray.c
> ===================================================================
> --- core/Lucy/Object/VArray.c (revision 956160)
> +++ core/Lucy/Object/VArray.c (working copy)
> @@ -55,8 +55,7 @@
> VA_dump(VArray *self)
> {
> VArray *dump = VA_new(self->size);
> - uint32_t i, max;
> - for (i = 0, max = self->size; i < max; i++) {
> + for (uint32_t i = 0, max = self->size; i < max; i++) {
> Obj *elem = VA_Fetch(self, i);
> if (elem) { VA_Store(dump, i, Obj_Dump(elem)); }
> }
>
> A good place to start would be that file, VArray.c.
> Thanks for inquiring,
OK, I see.
Is it possible to ask questions about design choices of Lucy (how indexes are
built, algorithms
behind the scene...) in this mailing list as I'm missing this Information
Retrieval skills?
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