| Andreas Boll | ecd5c7c | 2012-06-12 09:05:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> |
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| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 9 | |
| Andreas Boll | ecd5c7c | 2012-06-12 09:05:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | <h1>Help Wanted / To-Do List</h1> |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | |
| 12 | <p> |
| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | We can always use more help with the Mesa project. |
| 14 | Here are some specific ideas and areas where help would be appreciated: |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 15 | </p> |
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| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | <ol> |
| Brian | 7f80dc1 | 2007-10-31 09:44:01 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | <li> |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <b>Driver patching and testing.</b> |
| Andreas Boll | 24eebf4 | 2012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 20 | Patches are often posted to the <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev" target="_parent">mesa-dev mailing list</a>, but aren't |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | immediately checked into git because not enough people are testing them. |
| 22 | Just applying patches, testing and reporting back is helpful. |
| 23 | <li> |
| 24 | <b>Driver debugging.</b> |
| Andreas Boll | 24eebf4 | 2012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 25 | There are plenty of open bugs in the <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Mesa" target="_parent">bug database</a>. |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | <li> |
| 27 | <b>Remove aliasing warnings.</b> |
| 28 | Enable gcc -Wstrict-aliasing=2 -fstrict-aliasing and track down aliasing |
| Brian | 7f80dc1 | 2007-10-31 09:44:01 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | issues in the code. |
| 30 | <li> |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 31 | <b>Windows driver building, testing and maintenance.</b> |
| Andreas Boll | 24eebf4 | 2012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 32 | Fixing MSVC builds. |
| Brian | 7f80dc1 | 2007-10-31 09:44:01 -0600 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | <li> |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | <b>Maintenance and testing of lesser-used drivers.</b> |
| Andreas Boll | 24eebf4 | 2012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 35 | Drivers such as i810, mach64, mga, r128, savage, sis, tdfx, unichrome, etc that aren't being maintained are being |
| 36 | deprecated starting in Mesa 8.0.<br> |
| 37 | They have to be ported to DRI2 to be accepted in mesa master again. |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 38 | <li> |
| 39 | <b>Contribute more tests to |
| Andreas Boll | 24eebf4 | 2012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 40 | <a href="http://people.freedesktop.org/~nh/piglit/" target="_parent">Piglit</a>.</b> |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 41 | <li> |
| 42 | <b>Automatic testing. |
| 43 | </b> |
| 44 | It would be great if someone would set up an automated system for grabbing |
| Andreas Boll | 24eebf4 | 2012-06-25 21:54:08 +0200 | [diff] [blame^] | 45 | the latest Mesa code and run tests (such as piglit) then report issues to |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | the mailing list. |
| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | </ol> |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | |
| 49 | |
| 50 | <p> |
| Brian Paul | b6c41fd | 2009-01-22 09:58:52 -0700 | [diff] [blame] | 51 | If you want to do something new in Mesa, first join the Mesa developer's |
| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 52 | mailing list. |
| 53 | Then post a message to propose what you want to do, just to make sure |
| 54 | there's no issues. |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | </p> |
| 56 | |
| Andreas Boll | df2be22 | 2012-06-12 09:05:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 57 | <p> |
| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | Anyone is welcome to contribute code to the Mesa project. |
| 59 | By doing so, it's assumed that you agree to the code's licensing terms. |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | </p> |
| 61 | |
| 62 | <p> |
| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | Finally: |
| Andreas Boll | df2be22 | 2012-06-12 09:05:22 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | </p> |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | <ol> |
| Brian Paul | f901072 | 2005-02-10 15:18:26 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | <li>Try to write high-quality code that follows the existing style. |
| 68 | <li>Use uniform indentation, write comments, use meaningful identifiers, etc. |
| 69 | <li>Test your code thoroughly. Include test programs if appropriate. |
| Brian Paul | 0b27ace | 2003-03-08 17:38:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | </ol> |
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| Andreas Boll | ecd5c7c | 2012-06-12 09:05:03 +0200 | [diff] [blame] | 73 | </body> |
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