<HTML> <TITLE>Help Wanted</TITLE> <BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#55bbff" link="#111188"> <H1>Help Wanted</H1> <p> We can always use more help with the Mesa project. Here are some specific areas. If you think you can help out, post to the mesa3d-dev mailing list. </p> <ul> <li>Windows 98/NT build/driver maintenance and testing (Karl Schultz has been doing a great job of this lately) <li>DOS/DJGPP build/driver maintenance and testing <li>GGI driver/build maintenance and testing <li>GNU autoconfig/libtool maintenance (esp. on non-Linux systems) <li>x86, SSE, 3DNow! and SPARC assembly language programming <li>Implement WGL font functions in the WGL interface code <li>Implement off-screen bitmap rendering support in the WGL interface code <li>Help with writing/testing the new NV_fragment_program extension code <li>Implement the ARB_vertex/fragment extensions <li>Download/compile/test Mesa and report any bugs found </ul> <p> If you want to help with Mesa, first join the Mesa developer's mailing list. Then post a message explaining what you might like to help with. The Mesa web page has a list of a few work items which you may consider. </p> </p> Anyone is welcome to contribute code to the Mesa project, provided you agree to the copyright terms of the relevant code. See the COPYRIGHT file. </p> <p> Unfortunately, all the easy work in Mesa was done years ago. Nowadays, the work is rather complicated and not suited to beginners. </p> <p> If you're contribution code to the Mesa library itself: <p> <ol> <li>Try to write clean code (uniform indentation, comments, meaningful identifiers, etc). It must be readable and maintainable! <li>Test your code. On several occations I've incorporated code from users which later turned out to have bugs. Now, I'm pretty hesitant to use code which doesn't look good. </ol> </BODY> </HTML>