Hi Romain, Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2011, 11:11 +0200 schrieb Romain Failliot: > Hi all! > > I'm an experienced programmer, but I've never touched the mesa code. > I desperately want to help, but for that, I need a "mentor" to teach > me the basics about the project, the good practices and eventually > drive me through the bugs and features. > > I'd be glad to begin with a simple, but long and unwanted bug/feature. > Once plugged to this bug, I won't bother you until I finish, I'll > learn by my own at this point. > > Hope someone is interested ;)
That strongly depends on what you are planing todo, Tom already noted most of the questions you should answer to yourself and the mailing list: 1. On what part of mesa (GLSL, interface, driver, video decoding etc..) do you like to work on? 2. How much time to you want to spare? Are you a student/professional or do you just want to spend some time on a hobby? 3. What hardware to you have available? 4. Depending on question 1: How many experience do you have with different parts of programming (OpenGL, D3D, low level hardware hacking, etc...) ? 5. How many help do you need to get going? That could reach from questions like: "How to install a compiler in my distro?" to "Where can I find documentation of hardware register xy? Every help is very welcome, so just explain what you need a bit more and I think we can figure that out to get you going. Fixing a specific bug that for you is easy to reproduce is a good start for example. Christian. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
