[Mesa-dev] How do I start contributing to Mesa?

[Arnas Milaševičius]

Okay, I've sent the patch to the mailing list, I hope it will be accepted.
By the way, could someone add some a little bit harder bugs or something to
bugzilla for beginners? Not just renaming functions.


On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Arnas Milaševičius <giant1gf at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:16 PM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/04/2013 01:08 PM, Benjamin Bellec wrote:
>>
>>> Le 04/06/2013 21:54, Brian Paul a écrit :
>>>
>>>> On 06/04/2013 06:37 AM, Arnas Milaševičius wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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...
>>>>
>>> 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
>>> http://dri.freedesktop.org/**wiki/R600ToDo/<http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R600ToDo/>)
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> I've created two simple tasks in bugzilla:
>>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=65373<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65373>
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=65374<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65374>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> -Brian
>>
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