Le 04/06/2013 21:54, Brian Paul a écrit : > On 06/04/2013 06:37 AM, Arnas Milaševičius wrote: >> Hello, >> >> First of all, I'm not sure if it's the right place to ask such a >> question, but I'll try. I've started learning OpenGL and I really want >> to contribute to Mesa project, but the way to do it had always been a >> mistery for me. As a beginner contributor, I still don't understand >> which bugs should I take, how do I fix em? It's like, you take the bug, >> but... where the heck do you start fixing it? How do you find the core >> of the problem? I see many people telling that the best start is to >> start fixing bugs you have, but atm I don't have any problems that'd >> bother me. > > Probably the easiest bugs to fix are those that fail on assertions or > crash. With those you can at least get a stack trace in the debugger > and get some idea of the code path involved. With general rendering > bugs it's often harder to know where to start looking. > > Otherwise, which driver are you using or are you interested in? It's > sometimes easier to focus on one particular area of mesa (such as a > driver, or say the GLSL compiler) than to try to understand everything. > > >> So, could anyone point me to the right direction? Maybe share your >> experience, how did you start, what do you do when you start fixing bugs >> and how should I fix em as a beginner, etc? > > Again, if there's a particular of area of interest to you, start > there. Read the source code. If you find the comments lacking, post > patches to improve the comments as you figure things out. > > There's a terribly out-dated helpwanted.html file in the docs > directory which was intended to list things to be worked on. It would > probably be better if were more active in creating Bugzilla entries > for to-do items that we'd like to do but don't always have time for. > I'm sure we could come up with some easier things for newbies. I > could probably come up with 1 or 2 things pretty quickly... Hello,
I also think that it would be very interesting for beginners (like me) that experimented mesa developpers writes some easy (even trivial!) TODO things on the wiki (for instance http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/R600ToDo/) or elsewhere. Tasks that you (as experimented) consider very easy, "useless" or with very low priority... for beginners these kind of tasks could already be a hard work to begin with. Regards. Benjamin > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > mesa-dev mailing list > mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
