Getting involved

Both Dirac and Schrodinger are Open Source collaborative projects, and we welcome contributions from anyone for any part of the Dirac system. We are keen to keep all discussion in the public domain and so if you are interested in contributing to the Dirac project please browse the developers forum for current and future development in Dirac and subscribe to the Schrodinger mailing list.

Future development of a practical real-world implementation will concentrate on Schrodinger: if this is your bag, then your efforts are best directed there. The Dirac codebase will continue as a set of reference implementations and (for a little while longer) as an experimental platform for compression improvements.

The developers readme outlines code standards and information for code contributions to the Dirac codebase.

If you want to help, you might find it useful to do two things: read some of the documentation (Warning: there's a lot) and look at the TODO list.

In addition to code contributions we'd like as many people as possible to test the code on real pictures. If you come across any anomalies, artefacts or software bugs, post them to the Dirac bug tracker on SourceForge.