[09:12] schestowitz__As you may know, Ive been working on VK-GL-CTS for some time now. VK-GL-CTS the Conformance Test Suite for Vulkan and OpenGL, a large collection of tests used to verify implementations of the Vulkan and OpenGL APIs work as intended by the specification. My work has been mainly focused on the Vulkan side of things as part of Igalia's ongoing collaboration with Valve.
[09:12] schestowitz__Last year, Khronos released the official specification of the Vulkan ray tracing extensions and I had the chance to participate in the final stages of the process by improving test coverage and fixing bugs in existing CTS tests, which is work that continues to this day mixed with other types of tasks in my backlog.
[09:12] schestowitz__As part of this effort I learned many bits of the new Vulkan Ray Tracing API and even provided some very minor feedback about the spec, which resulted in me being listed as contributor to the VK_KHR_acceleration_structure extension.
[09:12] schestowitz__Now that the waters are a bit more calm, I wanted to give you a list of resources and a small overview of the main concepts behind the Vulkan version of ray tracing.
[09:13] schestowitz__I needed to set up access to a paid-for email provider, mailfence.com via mutt. Yes, they do have a web-based access, but real email users use mutt (and Ive been using it since about 1998).
[09:13] schestowitz__At least they are providing standard IMAP services which is the Right Thing and also support GPG signing and encryption built-in. I have not checked other providers, but for an email service to offer up standard GPG is a Big Win in my books.
[09:13] schestowitz__I am writing this down more an as reminder to myself as well as a means of documenting how I got mutt to work with mailfence.
[09:22] schestowitz__On the evening of April 6th, a student emailed a patch to a list of developers. Fifteen days later, the University of Minnesota was banned from contributing to the Linux kernel.
[09:22] schestowitz__I suggest you find a different community to do experiments on, wrote Linux Foundation fellow Greg Kroah-Hartman in a livid email. You are not welcome here.
[09:22] schestowitz__How did one email lead to a university-wide ban? Ive spent the past week digging into this world the players, the jargon, the universitys turbulent history with open-source software, the devoted and principled Linux kernel community. None of the University of Minnesota researchers would talk to me for this story. But among the other major characters the Linux developers there was no such [09:22] schestowitz__ hesitancy. This was a community eager to speak; it was a community betrayed.