>>As was said in the other thread, just designing it alone would take a >>few months work. AJ is really busy with other things, and a few months >>work is both a lot of money and a lot of wasted productivity. No one >>is stepping up to sponsor the work, so it's a bit hard for him to take >>that on. > >Who is asking AJ to do all of the work. Huw Davies and Max have worked out >what is needed to get this into Wine. All we need is guidance on what is >acceptable and how we should proceed. This seems to be a serious shortcoming >on AJs part. Without this, any further work would be futile and could end up >being very frustrating. I've seen this from Huw and it is starting to come >from Max. AJ needs to get some time together and write up what is and is not >acceptable as far as code style, fashion and what he expects out of the >development efforts for the DIB engine. Making a statement >after months of work is IHMO very unacceptable. > >Also, I don't see this as circular, but the 'snake' of getting AJ to accept >code into the codebase is.
This is where I figured I'd wake up and chime in a bit. None of you all know me I suppose but I've been primarily just listening in on this list for the better part of two years now. :) My ears perked up when the two words DIB and spec were put together in the same sentence. One frustration I encountered when wanting to contribute to wine a little over two years ago was that nobody seemed to be able to say "Hey, this is what we are missing/need, here are the specs, go implement". Essentially, that's how I work and how I work well. Trying to fix random bugs in random applications in a codebase completely unfamiliar to me seemed to be rather futile so at that point in time I abandoned those efforts and just stuck to using wine. =P So that said, I've got a decent amount of experiences dealing with graphics, including full 24/32-bit color on embedded devices. Considering the environment, performance has always been a priority as well. Plus, I also really like working with graphics related code. So from where I'm standing right now, this seems to be right in my neighbourhood. So if anyone can drop a full spec into my lap which outlines everything I need to write and where (given I adhere to things as I should of course) I won't have any issues getting that accepted later on, I'd be more than willing to take on something like this. Thanks, Stephan
