Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-28 Thread Erick Erickson
that's a mirror, the source of truth is: svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/dev/trunk See: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/HowToContribute for lots of pointers on how to check things out, compile, test, set up an IDE (Eclipse, IntelliJ, Netbeans) etc. Good luck! Erick On Fri,

Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-27 Thread Gimantha Bandara
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,

Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-27 Thread Jack Krupansky
+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

Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-26 Thread Erick Erickson
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 The code base changes fast enough that anything published will be out of date in short order.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

Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-26 Thread Adrien Grand
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,

Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-19 Thread Gimantha Bandara
Any clue on where to start from? On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:24 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 But I think it is outdated.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

Re: Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-19 Thread Ahmet Arslan
Hi Gimanta, Not sure about the lucene internals, but here are some pointers : http://find.searchhub.org/document/a81b4c9af49c3d0f http://find.searchhub.org/?q=contribute#%2Fp%3Alucene%2Fs%3Aemail Ahmet On Thursday, March 19, 2015 3:58 PM, Gimantha Bandara giman...@wso2.com wrote: Any clue

Would Like to contribute to Lucene

2015-03-12 Thread Gimantha Bandara
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