Stream: brlcad

Topic: How to start contributing


view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Nov 16 2024 at 15:15):

Hello @Hector Serrano, @Shreya Baid, @Indranil Saha, @Gufran Khan, and everybody else interested in contributing to BRL-CAD, whether GSoC related or not.

The first thing you should do is learning about BRL-CAD, what it is and how it works. I.e.

The next step would be compiling the programs from sources. This is, of course, necessary for contributing to the programs in our main repository. But, even if you are interested in web-programming, like our Online Geometry Viewer or writing a Python API (where you need an installed BRL-CAD only), without being able to compile it by yourself, you cannot benefit from latest improvements. Therefore

Links with ideas for small contributions:

Last, some remarks regarding GSoC:

view this post on Zulip Daniel Rossberg (Feb 22 2025 at 15:45):

@siddharth said:

how to contribute

The first thing you should do is learning about BRL-CAD, what it is and how it works. I.e.

The next step is compiling the programs from sources. Therefore

At last, some links with ideas for small contributions:


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