Hi, Sichom! On Mar 09, Sichom Lionel wrote:

My name is Lionel Sichom, 2nd year undergraduate student at the University of Buea.

I am a newbie in Open source community and I am interested in participating at the Google Summer of Code 2015 with MariaDB. I am mostly interested with the project Indexes on virtual columns. As for now I have 5.5.41-MariaDB version and I have already downloded the code, and I am already compiling the code.

Can someone please guide me through the steps next to follow.

First, we recommend to do all the development on the latest MariaDB branch and with git. So, install git and clone https://github.com/mariadb/server. Compile, run the test suite, etc. Also, you might want to understand the project idea, know what virtual columns are, why they cannot be indexed, how this is supposed to be fixed. Check related parts of the code, may be. Regards, Sergei