X.org EVoC Ideas

[Raghav Jajodia]

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the late reply. My university exams are in progress and will keep
me busy till 27th April.
First of all, I would like to clear the air a little bit; I do have a
knowledge of C/C++ but the knowledge and understanding is only limited to
pursuing undergraduate level Computer science courses and solving Data
structures and Algorithmic problems. On going through the codebase of
software built on C++, I have realized that software development in C++
demands more knowledge such as QT.

Also, It feels great to see ideas on Python is coming up for students to
work on. As per the advice given in previous conversation, I feel learning
C++ development would be worth it (But it would take time).

Thanks

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:58 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 18 April 2017 at 20:38, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 02:27:14PM -0400, Rob Clark wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> > On 18 April 2017 at 16:48, Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Raghav Jajodia
> >> >> <jajodia.raghav at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>> Hi there
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I am Raghav Jajodia, an Engineering student from India. While going
> through
> >> >>> the X.org foundation, I felt that X.org is a great community for
> new Open
> >> >>> Source developers. I am deeply interested in being a part of the
> community.
> >> >>> Although, while going through the GSoC and EVoC Ideas, I found that
> all the
> >> >>> ideas revolve around C, C++, QT or Compilers.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Working extensively on Web, Moile and Desktop applications, I have
> gained
> >> >>> good experience with Python, JS, PHP, Ruby etc. But I do not have
> any
> >> >>> experience with C/C++.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> So, is not possible for a student to participate in EVoC if he
> doesn't have
> >> >>> any experience with Open source softwares built on C/C++. Are there
> any
> >> >>> project ideas using languages apart from C/C++ that a student can
> work on
> >> >>> for EVoC 17/18?
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi, the only requirement regarding programming languages is that
> >> >> "Applicants know their target programming language."..  there isn't
> >> >> any requirement otherwise, but I think the fast majority are largely
> >> >> C/C++.  There are bits of python here and there (piglit, for
> example..
> >> >> possibly others that I don't know of).
> >> >>
> >> >> From a quick look all of the suggested projects involve C and/or C++.
> >> >> But that doesn't mean a candidate couldn't suggest a different
> project
> >> >> that is not on the list.
> >> >>
> >> > FWIW the python in piglit is fine, while the one in Mesa is in a dire
> shape.
> >>
> >> I didn't realize there where TODO's for py involved in mesa build..
> >> maybe we should add some to the SummerOfCodeIdeas wiki page[1]
> >>
> >> /me would add convert nir_intrinsic.h + multiple #includes to .py
> >> generating .c and .h if there was such a topic..  maybe not enough for
> >> a EVoC/GSoC project on it's own but perhaps if combined w/ some other
> >> work needed on mesa's python..
> >>
> >> BR,
> >> -R
> >>
> >> [1] https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/
> >
> > Or just add a link to the TODO in the codebase here? That's essentially
> > what we're doing for the kernel, at least for the cleanup/refactor tasks.
>
> Codebase has 700+ TODO snippets, although most of the TODO files are
> unmaintained.
> The freedreno and nouveau Trello boards are in good shape, but those
> are C/C++ only.
>
> Some python ideas:
> mapi/glapi:
>  - consolidate where applicable (there's 25 scripts) and use the
> Khronos XML files.
>
> anv/radv:
>  - the entrypoint generators share ~90% (before the former was
> rewritten) that can be factored and reused
>
> glsl/glcpp:
>  - rewrite completely - currently a python generator creates a shell
> scripts which executes another python script
>
> generic:
>  - use mako
>  - make the scripts compatible with python 2 and 3
>  - add generic function/class to manage input and output files in
> consistent manner
>  - move and reuse src/mapi/glapi/gen/license.py to generate the license
> blorb
>
> Sadly my python skills are quite limited so I won't be a good mentor
> for either of these :-\
>
> -Emil
>
> [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/tasks/
>



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