New to wayland, need help pls.

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:11:11 +0530
Srivardhan M S <srivardhanms at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am new to Wayland, and I would like to contribute to it. I have already,
> downloaded the source code and have built it. Now reading the documentation
> for understanding. Can you pls tell me how I can start involving and
> contributing to wayland?

Hi,

if you have no idea where to start or any features you would like to
add, here are some suggestions specific to Weston. If you want to work
on a different compositor, or maybe toolkits, or maybe things like
SDL's Wayland support, those would be welcome, too. I suppose the
similar principles apply. Once you pick a topic, the people involved can
better explain what's involved.

Weston is always short of patch reviewers. You could take patches from
the mailing list, and test them. Check if they do what it says in the
description, or if you can find something that breaks. Then post your
findings as reply to the patch on the mailing list. For more
information, see:
http://wayland.freedesktop.org/reviewing.html

You could go through the bugzilla reports and try to fix something.

Especially if you have a non-Intel GPU, you could test various
compositors on DRM (not on top of an X server), and file bugs on any
issues you find. For example, there is already:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75761


Thanks,
pq