Project roadmap, contribution guide, and communication for onboarding new developers

[ChrisAndre]

Hello to the Simit team,

I'm interested in contributing to the project, as with probably a number of other lurkers. It would be useful to have a central roadmap containing the explicit project development goals, so that we can pitch and discuss ideas that are in line with the goals.

A contribution guide would also be particularly useful, since it seems at first glance that the codebase has some good standards in place already.

The Github wiki functionality would be a natural place for these things.

I don't know if the mailing list is a good medium for communication, so I also recommend setting up a chat/post system. I am partial to https://gitter.im, which I have seen used successfully on other github-based projects; it is a web-based public chat room system that has a very good free version and supports integration with github projects.

I look forward to contributing, and airing some ideas!

Cheers,

-Chris.

[fredrikbk]

Hi @ChrisAndre,

Sorry for the late reply. We've discussed this and we think it's a great idea! Anything we can do to help people get involved. I'm pretty backed up this week, so I'll see if I can write something early next week. The main things we'd love help on is the C++ API. A lot of things are needed such as visualizers, mesh loader support, etc. Other ideas are of course welcome!!

We've been using slack, but I'll take a look at gitter too!