Hi Stephen, On 03/17/2014 07:52 PM, Stephen Chandler Paul wrote: > Hello, > I'm a college student who is looking into taking part in the Google > Summer of Code, specifically with X.Org and Wayland. However, I've been > having a bit of a challenge finding a project proposal that I think I > would be able to implement, and one that involves working with Wayland > (or if that's not possible, X.Org) and is requires enough work to be a > reasonable proposal for GSoC. > As of now I currently have a mild amount of experience with the X11 > codebase, as I took part in designing and implementing support in > xf86-input-synaptics for emulating soft buttons for TrackPoints on the > latest series of Lenovo laptops, and managed to get two commits merged > upstream. I have taken a look of the list of possible proposals on the > X.Org page and although it is possible I might be able to handle them > once I do more research on the issues in X they cover, I want to see if > I can find a proposal with Wayland or Xorg that I would feel more > comfortable implementing and using as my proposal when the nearing > deadline for GSoC applications come before choosing one of those. > The vast majority of my programming experience is with the C > programming language and I have managed to attain a very solid > understanding of the language, I also have a good amount of experience > with glib and GTK+3. Other then working with the TrackPoint soft > buttons, my hardware experience is limited but I am always willing to > learn and pick up any additional skills I might need. > This being said, I'm digging through Google results and IRC channels in > search of a potential proposal. I've looked around and tried to find a > solid roadmap or to-do list for Wayland that I could make one with, but > the only one I managed to find is apparently very out dated. > I've asked around in #Wayland and Zoxc presented a task that sounds > like it might be perfect for me: Implementing color management in > Weston/Wayland (this is also why I Cc'd [email protected]) > and updating his current patches to work with the latest versions of > Wayland/Weston. The patches he mentioned can be found here: > https://github.com/Zoxc/weston/compare/master...gl-work , and the > current proposal for how color management will be implemented that he > has come up with can be found here: > https://github.com/Zoxc/weston/blob/cms/protocol/cms.xml . This is > something I'd be perfectly willing to undertake, but I don't know if > this is something that would be a large enough project to be a > reasonable proposal.
I find it hard to judge this size-wise, but I think it would be very useful to get cms support added to Wayland. > > So I'd like to ask if you guys had any ideas for good GSoC proposals > concerning (preferably)Wayland or X11 that aren't currently listed on > the suggestions page for X.org GSoC project proposals on > FreeDesktop.org? I'd also like to know if the project proposal I > currently have, implementing color management for Weston/Wayland, is > something you guys think would be a reasonable project proposal for > GSoC. One thing which comes to mind would be a wayland backend for SDL-1.2 there are many many games using SDL-1.2, and I seriously doubt all of them will get ported to SDL-2.0 so I think having a wayland backend for SDL-1.2 would be useful to have, and it feels like a project which would nicely fit into GSoC size wise. Note this is just a semi-random idea. Lets see what the others think about this :) Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
