[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Openjdk java2d rasterizer JEP for pisces (marlin) enhancements ?

[Benjamin Ducke]

On 19/02/15 17:06, Roman Kennke wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.02.2015 um 15:25 +0100 schrieb dalibor topic:
>>
>> On 19.02.2015 13:50, Mario Torre wrote:
>>
>>> The code is part of an OpenJDK project, though, it's already the
>>> existing Java rasterizer.
>>
>> It's not part of an OpenJDK Project - Project with an upper case 'P'. 
>> See http://openjdk.java.net/projects/ for details. Considering the 
>> motivation for this discussion, that would be a necessary precondition.
>>
>>> Of course I'm fine with giving it a formal home in the Graphics
>>> Rasterizer project (where it naturally belongs), but let's also try to
>>> be a bit more pragmatic, this code is in hold since more than one year
>>> now, the JEP process can be started before giving a formal home, or at
>>> least concurrently to that.
>>
>> While the JEP process is explicitly open even to aggressive, 
>> outside-the-box, and even completely wacky ideas, new feature ideas 
>> often require significant up-front research, experimentation, and 
>> socialization before they're ready to be proposed as enhancements to the 
>> JDK itself.
> 
> Socialization seems to be the major pain point here ;-)
> 
> It seems that the project is already fairly well advanced, and, from
> what I hear, used in production code in some places already, where it
> seems to outperform the pisces rasterizer.
> 
> The impact of including it in OpenJDK seems to be fairly small: it is an
> implementation of an existing SPI, and there's no need to make it the
> *default* right away. It can be included and live side-by-side and
> require some runtime flag to get it enabled. And when enough testing has
> been done, eventually switched to default.
> 
>> That work is typically performed within an OpenJDK Project.
> 
> I agree that it'd be good to bring Marlin into the Rasterizer project
> (which otherwise appeared to be an orphaned project anyway...) Why not
> go both routes in parallel: propose inclusion into the Rasterizer
> project, and start discussing a JEP. I see no problem with that.
> 
>> Such work would have to take the time it takes either way. I believe 
>> that focusing on writing JEPs before such work is complete (or even 
>> begun) means setting one's priorities in a way that puts the cart before 
>> the horse. You can certainly chose to do that, but the cart might not 
>> get very far on its own. [0]
> 
> Well, dunno, it just seems pragmatic to me. If anything, OpenJDK could
> need a little more agility and welcomeness to contributions, especially
> if they provide such massive improvements, and has already been tested
> outside OpenJDK for quite a while (exactly because it got stuck in
> OpenJDK's processes).

Speaking from past experience:
External contributors  will quickly lose their enthusiasm when
there is no easy way to commit some code.

That being said: What can everyday Marlin users do in terms of
testing/reporting that might help this process along -- preferably
without too much formal overhead?

Best,

Ben


> 
> Regards,
> Roman
> 



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