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, 16 January 2018Added gfx-rs D3D11 proposal
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| Marcos Caceres (Mozilla) | | Marcos Caceres (Mozilla) | ||
| ReSpec offers students the opportunity to work on a large code base that has extensive real world use and impact. The project offers students an extensive range of problems to tackle, from UI design, to concurrent processing (using Web Workers to do distributed text processing), dealing with accessibility and internationalization, writing and learning about unit and integration tests, security, code review, etc. - as well as exposure to the W3C and the web standards community, this project also aims at teaching students about how web standards are put together. To determine if this is a project you would like to be part of, see the [https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/ list of issues] you could work on. It's a great opportunity to learn about all aspects of open source software development, but with the freedom to take on small to large challenges over the Summer (depending on your skill level and level of confidence). About the mentor: Marcos Caceres is a Staff Engineer at Mozilla who has been working on Web Standards for over a decade. Marcos is the lead maintainer of ReSpec. Marcos has extensive experience mentoring developers and has previously successfully mentor a GSO student. | | ReSpec offers students the opportunity to work on a large code base that has extensive real world use and impact. The project offers students an extensive range of problems to tackle, from UI design, to concurrent processing (using Web Workers to do distributed text processing), dealing with accessibility and internationalization, writing and learning about unit and integration tests, security, code review, etc. - as well as exposure to the W3C and the web standards community, this project also aims at teaching students about how web standards are put together. To determine if this is a project you would like to be part of, see the [https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/ list of issues] you could work on. It's a great opportunity to learn about all aspects of open source software development, but with the freedom to take on small to large challenges over the Summer (depending on your skill level and level of confidence). About the mentor: Marcos Caceres is a Staff Engineer at Mozilla who has been working on Web Standards for over a decade. Marcos is the lead maintainer of ReSpec. Marcos has extensive experience mentoring developers and has previously successfully mentor a GSO student. | ||
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| D3D11 backend for gfx-rs HAL | |||
| [https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx gfx-rs] is a graphics abstraction library written in Rust and currently used for prototyping and investigation of [https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-announces-the-vulkan-portability-initiative Vulkan Portability] and [https://www.w3.org/community/gpu/ WebGPU] by Mozilla. The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of gfx-rs currently supports Vulkan, D3D12, Metal, and OpenGL. We want it to be powering [https://github.com/servo/webrender/ WebRender] for Firefox Quantum and Servo, and since WebRender currently runs on D3D11 (through [https://chromium.googlesource.com/angle/angle/+/master/README.md Angle]), we need to provide a native D3D11 backend. The implementation can be based off the existing D3D11 backend of [https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/tree/pre-ll/src/backend/dx11 gfx-rs pre-HAL], and the main challenge is porting the code, optimizing, and testing it. | |||
| Candidates should be familiar with Rust as well as low-level graphics development. Not having D3D11-specific experience is acceptable, given the willingness to learn it and a properly setup Windows development environment. | |||
| Dzmitry Malyshau (Mozilla) | |||
| Dzmitry Malyshau (Mozilla) | |||
| gfx-rs is one of the foundational projects in Rust gamedev/graphics, with rich history and wide range of users. We have an active community that encourages learning and curiosity in how graphics works down to the hardware. This is not a Mozilla project, but it may become a key component in Firefox Quantum for the ability to run natively on different platforms, while utilizing the fine-grained control of the graphics/compute workloads exposed by the low-level APIs. | |||
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| Another proposal, etc. | | Another proposal, etc. | ||