<div dir="ltr">I've fixed the first "bug" but I wonder what would be the right way to submit this patch, because I needed to change like 100 or more files? </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Brian Paul <<a href="mailto:brianp@vmware.com" target="_blank">brianp@vmware.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">On 06/04/2013 01:08 PM, Benjamin Bellec wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Le 04/06/2013 21:54, Brian Paul a écrit : <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 06/04/2013 06:37 AM, Arnas Milaševičius wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hello, First of all, I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask such a question, but I'll try. I've started learning OpenGL and I really want to contribute to Mesa project, but the way to do it had always been a mistery for me. As a beginner contributor, I still don't understand which bugs should I take, how do I fix em? It's like, you take the bug, but... where the heck do you start fixing it? How do you find the core of the problem? I see many people telling that the best start is to start fixing bugs you have, but atm I don't have any problems that'd bother me. </blockquote> Probably the easiest bugs to fix are those that fail on assertions or crash. With those you can at least get a stack trace in the debugger and get some idea of the code path involved. With general rendering bugs it's often harder to know where to start looking. Otherwise, which driver are you using or are you interested in? It's sometimes easier to focus on one particular area of mesa (such as a driver, or say the GLSL compiler) than to try to understand everything. <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> So, could anyone point me to the right direction? Maybe share your experience, how did you start, what do you do when you start fixing bugs and how should I fix em as a beginner, etc? </blockquote> Again, if there's a particular of area of interest to you, start there. Read the source code. If you find the comments lacking, post patches to improve the comments as you figure things out. There's a terribly out-dated helpwanted.html file in the docs directory which was intended to list things to be worked on. It would probably be better if were more active in creating Bugzilla entries for to-do items that we'd like to do but don't always have time for. I'm sure we could come up with some easier things for newbies. I could probably come up with 1 or 2 things pretty quickly... </blockquote> Hello, I also think that it would be very interesting for beginners (like me) that experimented mesa developpers writes some easy (even trivial!) TODO things on the wiki (for instance <a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R600ToDo/" target="_blank">http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R600ToDo/</a>) or elsewhere. Tasks that you (as experimented) consider very easy, "useless" or with very low priority... for beginners these kind of tasks could already be a hard work to begin with. </blockquote> </div></div> I've created two simple tasks in bugzilla: <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65373" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65373</a> <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65374" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65374</a> If you want to take one of these, maybe say so in the bug report first so that we don't get duplicated efforts. I encourage other Mesa developers to add more simple to-do items in bugzilla.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> -Brian _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list <a href="mailto:mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> </div>