[cairo] GSoC Requirements / Expectations
Daniel Kraft
d at domob.eu
Tue Mar 18 14:38:22 PDT 2008
Carl Worth wrote:
> That grounded things for me quite nicely so that I could ignore "big,
> scary X server code base", and just code up this one single function
> inside a test program. When I was done, I was a little startled to
> find Keith immediately committing the code to the X server and
> unleashing it on machines all over the world.
Wow, sounds really cool! Surely a good start into the codebase; I
remember when I did some fixes for Mozilla some time ago "just for fun",
it was more a trial-and-error thing until it worked, and then relying on
the reviewer to check it was "really" correct and did not just work by
coincidence; I never really had understanding of the big picture. I was
just happy everything worked and went through review...
> So with cairo participating in Summer of Code now, that's an
> experience I'd like to provide for as many students as possible. You
> definitely don't have to have worked directly with cairo or even
> computer graphics before at all. More important is that you are a
> capable programmer, you're interested in learning, and one of the
> project idea strikes you as being really compelling.
>
> You mentioned lookup-table rasterization for example. I like that
> project idea quite a lot since it would be replacing the code that
> Keith used to replace the code I wrote as I described above. :-)
Really? Well, as I don't know much about graphics for now, I
unfortunatelly can't really "really" understand what's behind the ideas;
lookup-table just sounds a bit like algorithm-thing, and I simply like
the feeling of implementing something and find the execution time go
down by an order of magnitude ;) This is somewhat satisfying.
Also, the polygon composition point sounds like it would include some
nice algorithmic work that could be somewhat "interesting"--but it's
just a feeling, as I don't yet understand deeply what it is about.
Do you have some more detailed information about those two ideas? Or
maybe some pointer to a bug-database with quick and easy things I could
try to get me a bit into the codebase without much need to learn
offhand? If possible, I'd like to help you while learning a bit...
BTW, I remember to have read that the cairo community is friendly; I can
only assure this so far! Thank you!
Just one more question: Is there some document or something related
describing what I need to do to test patched/hacked cairo code? Can I
do this easily without interferring with the stable version installed on
my system? (I'm sure so)
Thanks and good evening,
Daniel
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