[Mesa-dev] Old toys [DRI1 drivers] .....

randrianasulu at gmail.com randrianasulu at gmail.com
Sun Sep 26 18:58:25 PDT 2010


Hello!

В сообщении от Sunday 26 September 2010 22:34:20 Alan Coopersmith написал(а):
> randrianasulu at gmail.com wrote:
> > Can freedesktop/X.org organise something like Google summer (winter?) of
> > Code, with some tasks, need for moving those drivers forward? Good
> > documentation about _today_ mesa's internals and interfaces  hopefully
> > will speed up process?
>
> X.Org has a "Endless Vacation of Code" program which allows students to
> submit proposals at any time of year for work on the X stack (which we
> generally include Mesa & DRI in) - so if there's a student who wants to
> work on this, they just need to write up a proposal and submit it as
> described at:
> 	http://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC
>
> This is *not* a general code bounties program for any developer who wants
> to earn extra cash, but like Google's program, specifically for students to
> learn about real-world code while contributing to open source instead of
> having to look elsewhere for a job between semesters or even during the
> school year. We're a lot more flexible than Google simply because we
> generally deal with one or two students at a time, not 5,000.
>
> As for documentation, that was part of Matt Turner's Google Summer of Code
> project this year for adding KMS support to glint, so hopefully we'll have
> that soon.

Thanks for answering, i never heard about this program, can it be made more 
visible on wiki and elsewhere?


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