[Xcb] "non-programming" work

[Bart Massey]

Thanks much for offering to help!

I have a repo around somewhere with a partial port of x11perf in it.
Alan Coopersmith has done complete ports of a couple of smaller
things.

I think the biggest priority in the documentation is having someone go
through it in detail and make it current. Much of it is stale AFAICT.

I would really *love* to have someone document libxcbimage. I can't
believe I didn't do that at the time I wrote it. Sigh.

--Bart

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Conroy, Bradley Quentin
<bconroy at uis.edu> wrote:
> As part of my software engineering class we were assigned to help out an open source
>  project with some "non-programming" work.  Of all of the projects that I follow, xcb,
> seemed much better off on the programming side, but seems to want volunteers for
> the boring stuff.  I've already scoured google, github and sourceforge for projects that
> are using xcb, checked out the TODO list etc...
>
>    I was thinking might be helpful to list more types of apps that are not yet
> ported/implemented and how they may benefit from xcb...
> for example an X server running on wayland, a terminal emulator, etc...
> and possibly which major projects may benefit from supporting it.
>
> Also to list projects that provide particularly good examples of using xcb such as:
> * netsurf-browser (via the framebuffer backend - it supports xcb, wayland, sdl and
>  linux framebuffer, so may be useful to porters)
> * uwm.sourceforge.net - window manager with png, jpeg and xpm support
> * direct links to the applicable project's xcb related code (Qt, e17, gtk2-outdated vs.
> gtk3 "stubs")
>
> Possibly some documentation cleanup and formatting... maybe an X11/xcb
> side-by-side example or 2 (similar to what you would get in a diff viewer)
>
> I haven't yet come across a good example where someone used x11-xcb to
> port an app line by line, but I'm still going through histories on some github
> projects, since I think this would be extremely helpful to newcomers.
>
> I'd also like to help with updating the todo list to reflect the current status and
> to clarify some of the items a bit.  What _is_ the highest priority item(s)?
>
> R,
> Brad Conroy
>
> P.S. I did try to register for the wiki, but its still pointing to localhost/iki
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