Smithay is open to contributions from anyone. Here are a few tips to get started if you want to participate.
Most discussion about features and their implementations takes place on github. If you have questions, suggestions, ideas, you can open an issue to discuss it, or add your message in an already existing issue if it fits its scope.
If you want a more realtime discussion I (@vberger) have a Matrix room dedicated to Smithay and my other wayland crates: #smithay:matrix.org. If you don't want to use matrix, this room is also bridged to libera.chat IRC on #smithay.
Smithay attempts to be as generic and un-opinionated as possible. As such, if you have an idea of a feature that would be usefull for your compositor project and would like it to be integrated in Smithay, please consider whether it is in its scope:
- If this is a very generic feature that probably many different projects would find useful, it can be integrated in Smithay
- If it is a rather specific feature, but can be framed as a special case of a more general feature, this general feature is likely worth adding to Smithay
- If this feature is really specific to your use-case, it is out of scope for Smithay
Smithay aims to be a modular hierarchical library:
- Functionalities should be split into independent modules as much as possible
- There can be dependencies in functionalities
- Even if most people would directly use a high-level functionality, the lower level abstractions it is built on should still be exposed independently if possible
The goal is for Smithay to be a "use what you want" library, and features that are not used should have no impact on the application built with Smithay.