Contribution ideas

Spectrum is currently under heavy development. This means there are a lot of opportunities for contribution, but it can be difficult to figure out where to start, especially since there's not a complete system available to experiment with yet.

Here are some ideas for contributions, roughly ordered by priority. If working on any of these appeals to you, even if you don't understand all the parts involved, we'd be happy to provide mentorship and support. Just reach out on IRC or email devel@spectrum-os.org.

This list is nowhere near exhaustive. If there's anything else you're interested in working on, or just nothing on this list appeals to you or fits your skillset, get in touch, and we can advise you on how you might be able to help out.

1. Implement wl_compositor v4 in Sommelier. This will mean we no longer have to patch wlroots to downgrade it to an older protocol.
2. Implement a ceiling for host memory allocated by the crosvm memfd server.
3. Create a minimal VM kernel configuration. This will make it much easier to iterate on the VM kernel, by substantially reducing clean build times.

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