: > unfortunately, many people don't think to search "resolved" or "closed" : > bugs for similar problems.
: It's kind of ironic that people working on a search engine wouldn't : think to search first! :-) Human nature, I guess... well, yeah ... but i suspect peoples natural dendency when searching for bugs is to assume that if they are still having the problem it must not be a resolved issue ... i freely admit that if i'm searching for a bug, and don't find what i'm looking for with a lot of specific keywords, that i'll eventually switch to only looking at open issues at as a relax my keyword constraints and start gettting more and more things that only peripherally relate to the class/feature i'm searching on. : > I would suggest you start by looking at the popular issues, and fix any : > bugs that you feel you understand well enough to fix, or commit any : This is my point. It isn't obvious to me from JIRA what the popular : issues are (is it the one w/ a sum total of 5 votes????). I know what Democracy in action: if people don't vote on issues, the politicians don't know what issues the people care about; and if politicians don't pay attenttion to the few people who do vote, there's less incentive for people to vote :) given the size of the lucene user base, and how few issues have votes, i would argue that an issue with *1* vote should be considereed a popular issue -- but by all means start with the 5 vote issue if you're comfortable with it. : This has been my approach. For now, I am working on adding some : documentation on scoring (with Karl) and fleshing out the Flexible : Indexing. I feel like I know indexing pretty well, but not scoring, so : writing scoring documentation will be helpful. +1 -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
