Xenia: is this project alive?

Created on 7 Mar 2016 · 25Comments · Source: xenia-project/xenia

hasnt been a update in god knows how long so are you guys alive or did vulkan break everything

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Maybe low IQ

AussiePlick on 21 Mar 2016

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Hell yeah it is active. That something doesn't get as many pull requests as the linux kernel per day doesn't mean it ain't active.

ca1ek on 7 Mar 2016

The last code update on the main branch was 19 days ago. But it's probably highly active on other branches. Probably private ones that haven't been pushed yet.

TheDudeFromCI on 7 Mar 2016

the vulkan branch is the main focus right now. I'm guessing at the moment @benvanik and others are familiarising themselves with the vulkan API before they do anything too big

Razzile on 8 Mar 2016

This project has been for over three years, and has a pretty set history of alternating periods of activity and inactivity. A month of inactivity is not uncommon.

gibbed on 8 Mar 2016

In comparison to the RPCS3 project it's going pretty slow. But I think that's because not many people are big fans of MS/Xbox and rather contribute to the RPCS3 project.

MightyFo0l on 8 Mar 2016

@MightyFo0l you should get a job as a project manager, basing progress on lines of code/number of commits is the exact rubbish they would come up with!

paulsapps on 8 Mar 2016

I'm not basing that on the amount of lines of code at all, but more on community activity and the amount of playable games. It was not my intention to offend anyone.

Also compare https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/pulse to https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/pulse

MightyFo0l on 8 Mar 2016

Xenia coming to Patreon page ?
https://www.patreon.com/

Developing a fully functional emulator is a massive time-consuming project. With donations you can show your appreciation for this effort and at the same time support the development.

SakataGintokiYT on 8 Mar 2016

If that would speed up development I would gladly donate.

MightyFo0l on 8 Mar 2016

I am very happy this Project is still very alive and active.
Maybe I am crazy but I prefer xbox 360 to PS3.
Nothing beats a good session of Halo
I can also run way more games in Xenia than in RPCS3.
Yes I would also be happy to donate
Cemu Devs are doing it so why not you.....

AussiePlick on 8 Mar 2016

@MightyFo0l that doesn't not show what happens in forks e.g:

This branch is 84 commits ahead of benvanik:master.
Latest commit af7fc20 2 days ago @DrChat DrChat Beginnings of texture conversion/uploads

So clearly not dead.

paulsapps on 8 Mar 2016

O nice I didn't know that branch.

Maybe it might be an idea to make a twitter account or blog to post updates about the project, so more people 'outside' the project know what key developers are working on. It's hard to grasp what's going on just by looking at this Github page.

MightyFo0l on 8 Mar 2016

Just idle in IRC and watch what devs are doing. They do this in their free time so it wouldn't make sense to keep posting "I'm now doing X Y Z" on twitter or whatever.

paulsapps on 8 Mar 2016

I check the compatibility page every day, to see new entries and dev feedback on the issues.
Hence i stalk Razzile and gibbed input on the compatibility page.
Cheers guys

PS, sorry I forgot your input SakataGintokiYT

AussiePlick on 8 Mar 2016

Please don't make issues like this, they're absolutely unnecessary.

As for progress, I've been working on the Vulkan backend for the past week. Mainly have been setting up rendering architecture, will work on getting visible output next.

DrChat on 8 Mar 2016

+1 on DrChat said, and i propose to make main branch the vulkans branch... Why?

DX12 its only Windows "compatible".. Make two brachs of DX12 and Vulkan would be very hard to mantain, but making the Vulkan branch the main and focus only on him, you guys can work in this project and make it compatible for all platforms (and for Android too!! Remember we have already phones with the power of 10 cores, in 2 o 3 years we can have a mobile with sufficient power to run x360 games!!)
Vulkan is the future