Stopping work on EGL and Xgl

Russell Shaw rjshaw at netspace.net.au
Wed Aug 24 20:25:34 PDT 2005


Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Monday 22 August 2005 22:30, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> 
>>Xorg badly needs to acquire new developers, but it takes several
>>months before a newbie can work on big tasks such as finishing
>>Xegl or adding EXA support to an existing driver.

I've looked thru the docs in the source of xc. Where do i
find something on X server internals overall explanation?

> EXA support is actually a really easy way to get started.  The basic copy and 
> blit support is pretty painless.
> 
>>Maybe a janitor project could help?  The regular Xorg developers
>>would have to invest some more of their time to help out their
>>padawans, though...
> 
> I added a 'janitor' keyword to bugzilla for exactly this reason, but it 
> doesn't have many bugs attached to it yet.



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