Meeting 2020-10-15

[repi]

Previous meeting: #46

Time: 17:00 CEST
Where: #rust-gpu voice channel on Ark Discord.

Agenda

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• Classic @khyperia overview
• @eddyb joining meeting, yay!
• @XAMPPRocky joining - discuss potential engagement with the project (@arirawr)
• Discuss steps towards opening project now soon, how does it feel and what more do we need? Open source repo & project #55
  • Let's anticipate some FAQ so @arirawr and others can have responses, incorporate into project documentation as well
• Follow up on people & resourcing for the project

[repi]

Meeting notes

Participants

• @repi
• @khyperia
• @VZout
• @Jasper-Bekkers
• @arirawr
• @XAMPPRocky
• @eddyb

Minutes

Open sourcing #55

• @khyperia Getting very close to open source. Most issues concerned about is now fixed

• Onboarding is pretty decent Good project onboarding experience #28

  • Link in other issues, update issue template
  • @XAMPPRocky has taken it on overall

• Not much blocking us!

• Target middle of next week to open source! (update: 2020-10-22 Thursday)

How to announce

• Be very clear about that this is "Rust GPU 0.1" and which phases/levels we are in

  • TODO: Further clean up README

• Make sure to have a first nice shader!

  • More than an RGB triangle shader :)
  • @AriWar posted about it in the Embark team to see if anyone can contribute/port a shader
  • Would be great to have in the README both with code and screenshot, memoroable!

• @XAMPPRocky We should do a small post somewhere when going open, otherwise someone else will for us

  • The readme is already pretty good
  • Where to post it? could put in a GitHub release note!

• Also talked about dev blog, for later on

• Need to squat the crates.io crates names. Register crate name on crates.io #64 (Done!)

• Add FAQ later? "can I run this on my GPU?"

@eddyb intro

• Involved in Rust for 7 years, happily hacking on the compiler
• Just couldn't stop, much nicer codebase than anything else he has seen before :)
• Used to be part of the Rust language design team, still on the compiler team
• Excited about Vulkan and more development in this area
• Hope to collaborate more, let's discuss deeper ways of working together offline!

Misc

• Continue with spirv-tools?
  • Relooper idea is scratched?
  • Current MIR output is reduciable, may need work to make it structured
  • Not guaranteed, may be future MIR changes that makes it irreducible
  • Nhe general purpose algorithm makes irreducible MIR graph reducible
  • @eddyb MIR is just a control flow graph. probably not care too much about this
  • Decision: do short term integration and so it works for us, don't contribute/integrate back yet. Part of rust-gpu repo