Re: [Dri-devel] Do you need developers!?

[Daryll S. <da...@va...>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 04:10:54AM -0700, Kirill Ratkin wrote:
> Hello. I've seen your site. You look for volunteers
> for DIR project. I'd like to join to your group. Is it
> possible now? I have 4 years experience of C and Asm
> but my experience of driver development is very small.
> Some times ago I made simple network driver for
> special purpose only. Now my group makes new demo for
> Linux platform and we'd like to use all feature of our
> 3d cards via OpenGL and direct access via DRI. We
> discussed this ability it and we decided what one (or
> more) of us can help you to write more drivers for
> X/Linux.

We can always use new developers. The first question you have to ask is
what project do you want to tackle? There's lots of fixes/improvements
that could be made to existing drivers. Writing new drivers is great,
but getting documentation is often difficult. (There's a batch of people
trying to get Mach64 development going right now.) You could pick some
other feature that would be useful to multiple cards.

Once you know what you want to do, post details here and let people
know, because you may find more people interested in helping.

Then we ask that you submit a couple patches before we give write access
to the tree. That way we can check over the code and make
suggestions. We also have source tree policies we ask you to
follow. Mostly those require you work on a CVS branch and then do
testing and be very careful before you merge onto the trunk.

> P.S. Excuse me my english. I'm russian and my english
> isn't good yet.

No problem.

						- |Daryll