Summer of Code and Projects around Wine

[Aaryaman Vasishta]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 4:20 PM Stefan Dösinger <stefandoesinger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Since we had troubles getting GSoC students and project ideas in the past
> year I'd like to bring up a controversial suggestion: Talk to the projects
> that popped up around Wine like PlayOnLinux, Lutris, DXVK if they have
> GSoC-compatible ideas and host them as a Wine GSoC project.
>
> Ideally those projects would be something that reduces friction between
> upstream Wine and other projects. E.g. on FOSDEM I talked with Josh Ashton
> and he mentioned d3d behaviors that some games depend on for which we don't
> have tests and that sometimes work in wined3d by accident or don't work.
> Syncing those lessons by writing and upstreaming proper Wine tests would be
> a valuable thing for everyone.
>
> I don't know enough about PlayOnLinux or Lutris to suggest anything
> outright, but I still think it's worth asking them.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
> I'm on-board for this. I think we can at least try to find out what ideas
they have and gauge their usefulness to Wine itself. An ideal situation
could be a project involving contributions to both Wine upstream and the
other projects. I guess it'll depend on how compatible the ideas are, as
you mentioned.

Cheers,
Aaryaman
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