On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Alok Upadhyay <alok0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for that warm welcome, Robert! But I have been scouring through > the source only to end up taking a lot of time understanding the > system altogether. Since, understanding the whole system is essential > for making fixes which don't conflict the very nature of the > module/portion concerned.
Hmm, I think most of the tasks are intended to be fairly self-contained, so that hopefully you don't need to do this. It would be too overwhelming if you had to understand everything to make any contributions. For example, you don't need to understand the details of the indexer to make contributions to queryparsers. > > Doesn't this project have any graphical tools like > UML diagrams, Architecture diagrams etc.( which can greatly reduce the > getting-to-know-time, in my case particularly)? > Or if not, can you please suggest me some better(quicker) way of understanding > the different parts of the source. > > I think http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_5_0/api/core/overview-summary.html is a good start at introducing what the different pieces and parts do. Also you can probably find some introductory articles on google, and of course there are books (Lucene in Action) that go into even more detail. -- lucidimagination.com
