An introduction from a new comer potential student contributor

[Yinchu Liu]

Hi everyone,

My name is Yinchu Liu, a master student in Computer Science at University
of Quebec working on Computer Graphics. I noticed that wine has suitable
summer projects in relation to *vkd3d-shade*, although I do not have much
experience writing shader since my research project is Physical-Based
Amimation, I do have some experience from COMP551 and COMP559 at Mcgill
University and am quite into Computer Graphics and have done a lot of CG
projects. Hope I can contribute something this summer!

Best,
Yinchu

[Zhenbo Li]

Hi Yinchu,

Welcome! Glad that you're interested in vkd3d. There're three vkd3d
related projects[1], do you have any preference for it?

I'm not sure if there is a tiny task for beginners. I guess no - if
there is such a task, Henri would definitely add it to the wiki
page[2].

My suggestion is, try to compile wine and vkd3d on your computer. You
may also have a look on the todo list[3], but don't go too deep into
it - some jobs may be more difficult than its first glance.

Question to Henri - do you think submitting a tiny patch, fixing a
compile warning in vkd3d is a good idea when preparing a student's
proposal?


[1]: https://summer.iscas.ac.cn/#/org/orgdetail/wine?lang=en
[2]: https://wiki.winehq.org/Vkd3d
[3]: https://wiki.winehq.org/Vkd3d-todo

On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 12:01 PM Yinchu Liu <liuyinchu52(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> My name is Yinchu Liu, a master student in Computer Science at University of Quebec working on Computer Graphics. I noticed that wine has suitable summer projects in relation to vkd3d-shade, although I do not have much experience writing shader since my research project is Physical-Based Amimation, I do have some experience from COMP551 and COMP559 at Mcgill University and am quite into Computer Graphics and have done a lot of CG projects. Hope I can contribute something this summer!
>
> Best,
> Yinchu

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Sincerely,
Zhenbo Li

[Stefan Dösinger]

Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2021, 10:36:13 CEST schrieb Zhenbo Li:
> Question to Henri - do you think submitting a tiny patch, fixing a
> compile warning in vkd3d is a good idea when preparing a student's
> proposal?

For GSoC we had the requirement that students send a non-trivial patch. E.g. a 
new test case would qualify. I am not sure about compile warnings. Ideally 
there shouldn't be any, and if they are they'd be compiler/system specific 
(e.g. macos clang) or a new gcc version. A spelling fix in a comment however 
was the example for a "too trivial" patch.

[Zebediah Figura (she/her)]

On 6/9/21 5:01 AM, Stefan Dösinger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2021, 10:36:13 CEST schrieb Zhenbo Li:
> > Question to Henri - do you think submitting a tiny patch, fixing a
> > compile warning in vkd3d is a good idea when preparing a student's
> > proposal?
>
> For GSoC we had the requirement that students send a non-trivial patch. E.g. a
> new test case would qualify. I am not sure about compile warnings. Ideally
> there shouldn't be any, and if they are they'd be compiler/system specific
> (e.g. macos clang) or a new gcc version. A spelling fix in a comment however
> was the example for a "too trivial" patch.

Though, given how late OSPP SoC was announced, I personally think it'd 
be a little unfair to apply the same requirement here. Of course, if one 
does manage it, that would probably be a point in their favor once they 
apply.