> > Another thing that bother me, is that gallium community is very small > but worse thing is that some of people who are working on gallium are > very hard to approach, even arrogant. This is certainly not way how to > build successful society, for sure. It looks like that they consider > themselves as that they have some "mission" and stuffs like community > are not important at all. > > Documentation, as an example, fits perfectly into my story. There is no > successful community if there aren't good documentation. I really do > not know how do you imagine to develop any large-scale project if > you do not develop documentation concurrently with code!? Documentation > is at least important as source code is (read Donald Knuth!). >
I don't think any of this is true, I'm not sure what you think will help you gain entry to the community, the main entry level to any open source community is "Just Do It". It would be nice to be hand held into the community but looking at recent developer numbers the community has expanded quite well without everything you claim is required to build a community. It is always nice to have more documentation but its a simple return on investment problem and in fact I think it would be interesting for someone joining the community to attempt to write docs on how to enter the community and how they learned things. In fact most of my interaction with you seems based around you getting a job from some company, this is not how you enter a community and I've felt you've at least to me come across with all the wrong reasons for wanting to do this. To work on 3D drivers and Gallium, the main entry point I think nearly everyone who works on the codebase shares is fixing bugs on a system they have access to. So if you have Intel hw, trying to pick up i965g driver and fixing the bugs in it, or similiar for radeon/nouveau with thier gallium drivers. Most of the drivers also maintain TODO lists. Also there are Mesa GL3.0 todo lists for gallium, I recently added GL_ARB_half_float_vertex that was a pretty simple entry level, I haven't done the gallium suppor tfor this yet. Dave. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Mesa3d-dev mailing list Mesa3d-dev@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mesa3d-dev
