Exciting GSoC 2017 Projects: Vulkan Software Renderer, Kodi On Wayland, Much More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Exciting GSoC 2017 Projects: Vulkan Software Renderer, Kodi On Wayland, Much More

In addition to today marking the announcement of the accepted Outreachy 2017 summer projects, Google also announced today the participants for this year's Google Summer of Code...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GSoC-2017-Projects

[Azrael5]

Excellent agenda.

[FishPls]

Good stuff.

[davidbepo]

Excellent agenda.

Good stuff.

agreed

[LeJimster]

There is a maintained build of Kodi on Wayland for quite some time now. I'm not sure if it'll get merged into the main Kodi because their seems some animosity towards the guy maintaining the build. Still, it worked very well last time I tried.

https://github.com/MaxKellermann/xbmc

[HyperDrive]

Wayland support for Kodi! This is going to be perfect for LibreELEC!

[DebianXFCE Jr]

"Support for Go Language and Rust in KDevelop."

Nice. One IDE to rule them all.

[Guest]

Yes! Wayland support in Kodi! Along with hardware accelerated video decoding, this makes it a really good option for a media center or tablet.

[boxie]

"Support for Go Language and Rust in KDevelop."

Nice. One IDE to rule them all.

So... something from Jetbrains then? :P

[nomadewolf]

There is a maintained build of Kodi on Wayland for quite some time now. I'm not sure if it'll get merged into the main Kodi because their seems some animosity towards the guy maintaining the build. Still, it worked very well last time I tried.

https://github.com/MaxKellermann/xbmc

So they ditch supposedly good code just becasue they don't like who wrote it?...
Oh, wait! The same happened with ReiserFS...