EVoC - Project ideas & hardware requirements

[Stefan Dvoretskii]

Dear Roman and Peter,

thank you for the replies and the supplied links!

Cheers

2018-01-15 8:44 GMT+01:00 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>:

> sorry about the delay
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 07:57:41AM +0100, Stefan Dvoretskii wrote:
> > Hello dear Wayland developers,
> >
> > I am a student thinking about participating in EVoC. I've browsed the
> Ideas
> > concerning Wayland on the official site (
> > https://www.x.org/wiki/SummerOfCodeIdeas/) and found the Pressure-only
> > Bluetooth styli support and Multi-Buffer for XWayland ideas especially
> > interesting. However, there are some questions:
> >
> > * Hardware requirements - I doubt I would have the proper portable
> > hardware. Is it possible to run it virtually or could there be some
> cheaper
> > solutions for that (i.e., buying/renting the proper hardware for the
> > duration of the project)? What could you recommend?
>
> much of the input hardware can be emulated. That's fine for debugging but
> definitely not sufficient for writing new features because you just never
> know all the details that hardware can suprise you with. You definitely
> would have to own the hardware for the project - how you get it is largely
> left to you.
>
> > * The codebase of xOrg is pretty huge, so it's pretty hard to find
> relevant
> > code. Where should I look at first considering this projects/ideas?
>
> at least for the pressure-only BT styli, the project that you'd have to
> work
> with is libinput.
>
> > * Are there some resources apart from this and ToDo list where one could
> > find more things worthy doing an EVoC project about them?
>
> One of the first things I'll have to point you to is:
> "Applicants must already be involved with the project and known to the
> community. (This requirement is so that the majority of project time is
> spent on the actual project, not on figuring out build systems,
> contributions rules, etc.)" https://www.x.org/wiki/XorgEVoC/
>
> I strongly suggest that you start hacking on things you want to first, send
> patches, help out, etc, before you consider a full EVoC. While X.Org can
> fund EVoC-like programs, it doesn't have the infinite war chest that google
> has so the drawbacks of a failing student is a lot higher. And a
> side-effect
> of EVoC is that you don't have the community of other students around you,
> you'd be mostly on your own working only with others on the same project.
> So
> for your own benefit, getting along with those ppl is the first things to
> sort
> out :)
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter
>



-- 
Stefan Dvoretskii.
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