Matthew Garrett wrote: > The lack of documentation for various aspects of the server doesn't help > either. I found X development far more intimidating than getting > involved in the kernel.
That is something we know we've been lacking for a long time, and have been working to correct. So far most of the efforts have been around getting the docs to a place where people can edit them and then have the toolchain around to see the html/pdf/etc. output. (Matt & Gaetan have made amazing progress here over the last year after years of the rest of us talking about it, though most of that is around client library & protocol level documentation, since that's where the bulk of our existing documentation is, and not so much server/driver side.) For Xorg 1.9, I got the server internals docs in-tree and building with the standardish xmlto tools - now comes the hard part of getting them up-to-date again and having useful contents. The X.Org Board has recently approved Bart's proposal to set aside a few days before the 2011 X Developer Conference for a "book sprint" to produce documentation for developers and hopefully we'll be able to build upon the existing docs, Matt's Summer of Code KMS docs, and Stephane's draft driver writing guide to actually have some good docs for people. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.freedesktop.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com