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verify-patch-sanity.py validates every active recipe .patch has internally- consistent hunk line counts — catching the 'malformed patch at line N' failure at commit/CI/preflight time instead of hours into a cook. This cycle hit that class three times (qtwaylandscanner, sddm, xwayland), each only discovered when cookbook tried to apply the patch. Running it across the repo found 29 latent malformed patches (validated against GNU patch: e.g. relibc/P3-sysv-ipc reproduces 'malformed patch at line 22'). They were harmless only because they sit in vendored recipes (baked, not re- applied) — but would fail on any version-bump re-derivation. --fix recounts the hunk headers (body untouched) and repaired all 29. Wired into build-preflight.sh (Phase 1.0D) and redbear-ci.yml, with a unit test (test-patch-sanity.sh). Skips archived/legacy trees and unvalidatable formats (empty placeholders, bare-@@ git hunks).
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Help Wanted
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We can always use more help with the Mesa project. Here are some
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specific ideas and areas where help would be appreciated:
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#. **Driver testing.** Most developers are working on newer hardware
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on the Mesa main branch, but older hardware often doesn't have
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automated testing or as much testing coverage. Testing your older
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hardware for regressions and bisecting and fixing problems in those
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drivers is useful for other Linux users. You can also help by
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doing manual performance (or regression) testing work on performance
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changes being made in Mesa's open merge requests.
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#. **Driver debugging.** There are plenty of open bugs in the `bug
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database <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues>`__.
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#. **Remove aliasing warnings.** Enable GCC's
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``-Wstrict-aliasing=2 -fstrict-aliasing`` arguments, and track down
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aliasing issues in the code.
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#. **Contribute more tests to**
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`Piglit <https://piglit.freedesktop.org/>`__ that aren't covered by
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VK-GL-CTS.
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You can find some further To-do lists here:
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**Common To-Do lists:**
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- `features.txt <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/blob/main/docs/features.txt>`__
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- Status of OpenGL/OpenGLES and Vulkan features in Mesa across drivers.
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If you want to do something new in Mesa, first join the Mesa developer's
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mailing list. Then post a message to propose what you want to do, just
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to make sure there's no issues.
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Anyone is welcome to contribute code to the Mesa project. By doing so,
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it's assumed that you agree to the code's licensing terms.
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Finally, be sure to review the instructions for :doc:`submitting
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patches <submittingpatches>`.
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