[Mesa-dev] Newbie task to get started

[Ernst Sjöstrand]

One idea I had was helping fixing Coverity errors, but they seem to be
locked in behind closed doors. There are other static checkers of
course, and one could look into various good compiler warnings (with
newer/alternative compilers)?

Regards
//Ernst

2016-04-11 11:54 GMT+02:00 Jakob Sinclair <sinclair.jakob at openmailbox.org>:
> On 2016-04-11 09:14, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>>
>> Jakob,
>> Thanks for your interest and welcome to the mailing list!
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>> Yes, the NewbieProjects page, as with much of the mesa documentation, is a
>> bit
>> dated.  Before I can really tell you where to start, it would be good
>> to have a bit of background:
>>
>>  1) What graphics hardware do you have access to?  That will influence
>> what you can work on. :-)
>
>
> I currently have an R9 280x and is right now running the radeon + radeonsi
> driver. I also have an i5-3570K which makes me able to also work on the
> Intel driver.
>
>>  2) What kind of graphics experience do you have?  Have you ever
>> written a program that uses OpenGL?
>
>
> I have quite a lot of experience working with OpenGL. I have mostly used
> OpenGL for game engines that I have worked on.
>
>>  3) Do you have any compiler experience?  If not, that's ok, but be
>> warned that you might be getting some. ;-)
>
>
> I don't have experience working on any compiler but it would be really
> interesting to work on a compiler.
>
>>  4) Is there a particular area you like to work on?  If you have
>> something in particular that might help guide what you do.  If you
>> don't have any particular area, that's just fine.
>
>
> There is no area in particular that I'm more interested in than others. But
> normally I really like working on optimizations and making it more
> efficient. I don't though have a great deal of experience optimizing code.
>
>> The only real firm requirement to work on mesa is a decent working
>> knowledge of C.  Beyond that, there are a number of different projects
>> that one could work on that require varying levels of skill and/or
>> experience.  These include writing tests, adding compiler
>> optimizations, or even hooking up simple extensions.
>
>
> Thanks for the help! Really appreciate it.
>
>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Jakob Sinclair
>> <sinclair.jakob at openmailbox.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi! My name is Jakob Sinclair and I would like to start contributing
>>> to mesa development. I was wondering if anyone has any easy tasks
>>> that I as a newbie could start working on. I tried looking at
>>> https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/NewbieProjects/ [1] but it seems
>>> that page is outdated and most of the tasks over there have already
>>> been done. Thanks in advance for your help!
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jakob Sinclair
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Links:
>> ------
>> [1] https://wiki.freedesktop.org/dri/NewbieProjects/
>> [2] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
>
>
> --
> Mvh Jakob Sinclair.
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