Re: Develop a test framework for checking FreeType's rendering output - GSoC Project

[sarthak bhardwaj]

Hello,

As directed by you i have tried all the things and i think I have gathered some good amount of info,

As far as CI part is concerned which was earlier not compatible with Savannah, but as whole codes moved to gitlab, now we have probably multiple ways to implement that, either we can use repo mirroring by using Azure pipeline for CI (as it provides marketplace of plugins for integrations into pipelines and allows caching proxy of external repos)

 or we should simply write what is compatible with gitlab's CI.

So suggest me what should be better approach so that i will make my mind accordingly and will start reading about the same.

Thanks in advance

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021, 23:59 Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

Hello Sarthak,


> I am interested to work on this year's GSoC Project - "Develop a
> test framework for checking Freetype's rendering output".

Great!

> So I have done some googling from my side and it helped me to make
> many things clear, I have also read some of last year commits and
> mailing list archives of Greg Williamson, who was engaged in last
> year's Project which was on "Add/Improve Freetype Testing
> Framework", I found it very useful and it helped me to get a very
> basic overview about this project.

This is definitely a good start.

> Please guide me on whether my learning approach is correct or what
> should be my roadmap for getting some good knowledge on these things
> related to this idea and the codebase also.

The next thing is probably playing around with FreeType, this is,
using its API, trying to compile the library by yourself, testing the
FreeType demo programs, etc., etc.

After that, you should try to make Greg's stuff work for you, then
having a look how to integrate it into the gitlab instance on
'freedesktop.org'.

It might be also helpful to find projects that need similar graphical
testing, and check the solutions they have found for graphical
comparisons.  (Greg was working on something similar, IIRC.)

Finally, we await your educated questions on this list :-)


    Werner