On Tue, 15 Apr 2014 19:08:12 +0000 "Bryce W. Harrington" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:13:15AM +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:11:11 +0530 > > Srivardhan M S <[email protected]> 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. > > Maybe adding more tests? Any particular features recently added that > could benefit from tests added? Yes! That is a good one. Either adding completely new tests, or maybe working with Marek Chalupa in converting all possible FAIL_TEST cases to normal TEST cases, as permitted by Marek's http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-April/014190.html I can't list any features off-hand that would need new tests which would be easy to implement. But I guess we should at some point hook up a real renderer to the headless backend, and add infrastructure for the test framework to do screencaptures, so we could test also rendering and things like window stacking and surface/buffer transformations. Pixman's fuzzer test might be a good inspiration on how to actually do the tests once the infrastructure is up: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pixman/2014-April/003229.html Provided we can guarantee pixel-perfect rendering, which might not always be true, so a checksum-based checking might not always work. But I think that is getting quite heavy for just introductory work. Thanks, pq _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel
