contrib

Interested in contributing to the project? Great. This page maintains a running list of current- and urgent- tasks, with annotations that hint towards background and experience.

Look us up in #arcan on Freenode IRC network.

First, recall that one of the best ways to contribute is to use Arcan for your own projects and share your experiences - good and bad.

Roles: QUAL (Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Testing, Documentation), ADEV (Arcan Lua related scripting), HDEV (High- Level Development, scripting), LDEV (Low- Level Development, experienced / senior "modern" C 9899:1999+ skillset)

Not-ever needed: Comments (Why is this not implemented in <insert hype flavor language of the day>), Opinions (I believe feature X is important and should be done so and so), Marketing/Outputs from Running (insert code analysis tool here). Code-style/comment/formatting nit-picking patches.

Role	Task	Description	Notes
QUAL	Packaging	Req: Experienced Packager for key distributions
QUAL	Automated testing	Updating / Replacing atest.rb, CI setup and deployment
QUAL	API documentation	Proof-reading, updating examples and error cases for doc/*.lua
QUAL	Hardware testing rigs	Extend automated testing efforts, multi-display hotplug and latency
ADEV	Snapshot Lua debugging	Live monitoring and analysis tools for logs/state*.lua
ADEV	Support scripts needed	Extend/Generalize multidisplay support from durden with postproc.
ADEV	IME cleanup	Internationalisation IMEs for asian/arabic/etc. languages.
HDEV	Integration support	Scripts for scanning/populating/managing database
LDEV	Vulkan AGP	The graphics/shader abstraction (AGP) is currently GLES2/3/GL21
LDEV	Software AGP	A SSE/Neon optimized implementation of the graphics backend
LDEV	BCOM SHMIF Backend	Extend the shmif- backends with globalImageBRCM support
LDEV	Windows port resurrection	Switch to midipix or the posix- emulation mode
LDEV	Wayland server platform	Protocol Service Tool	Underway, Git
LDEV	Dec/Enc frameserver	Complement / replace existing default or simpler alternatives needed
LDEV	Remoting frameserver	Alternate implementations for protocols (RDP, SPICE) - or designing new)
LDEV	QEmu backend	Missing working Virgil/Audio/State-control	Underway, Git
LDEV	SDL2 backend	Clipboard / Quality work	Underway, Git
LDEV	More robust hijack libs	X11(+GLX), libpulse
LDEV	Improve Lua debugging	Debug traceback on crash should include arguments

In addition, "drive-by" patches are usually appreciated, with the exception of small "fixed indentation, spellcheck comments, sanitize language" pedantry.

Modifications to the Lua scripting interface is treated with extreme caution and expected to dual-license GPLv2/BSD. For binary extending the lua interface, the currently preferred approach (likely to change) is on an appl level with the system_load() mechanism that can take .so (.dylib) and expand into the VM state.