Cairo Has A Lengthy TODO List
For those that may have some extra time over the summer months that are looking to get involved with some new open-source work and are looking for something that's high-profile but often overlooked, Cairo would be a great project.
The Cairo vector graphics library for 2D drawing sports numerous back-ends -- with hardware acceleration support -- and is used by projects ranging from GTK+ to WebKit to Mozilla's Gecko engine to Inkscape and X.Org.
While Cairo is widely-used by countless open-source projects for its 2D drawing back-ends, there remains a lengthy TODO list. Work on their outstanding TODO list ranges from working out new performance improvements, SVG improvements, working out a lot of bug-fixes, back-end improvements, and developing new back-ends.
Those looking to help out an important free software project can find the lengthy Cairo TODO list in full at CairoGraphics.org.
The Cairo vector graphics library for 2D drawing sports numerous back-ends -- with hardware acceleration support -- and is used by projects ranging from GTK+ to WebKit to Mozilla's Gecko engine to Inkscape and X.Org.
While Cairo is widely-used by countless open-source projects for its 2D drawing back-ends, there remains a lengthy TODO list. Work on their outstanding TODO list ranges from working out new performance improvements, SVG improvements, working out a lot of bug-fixes, back-end improvements, and developing new back-ends.
Those looking to help out an important free software project can find the lengthy Cairo TODO list in full at CairoGraphics.org.
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