X.org EVoC Ideas

[Rahul Jain]

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 :-\
>
> Hi Emil,
I am following this mailing list from months, but this thread looks could
suit me :)
I am interested in pythonic tasks.
May be if you can elaborate them or can link me to some document i could
start working on them one by one :)

-Emil
>
> [1] https://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/tasks/
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Thanks,
Rahul jain
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