Backport proposal of the Marlin renderer in OpenJDK8

[Laurent Bourgès]

Dear Mario,

Le mer. 7 août 2019 à 10:40, Mario Torre <neugens at redhat.com> a écrit :

> Hi Laurent,
>
> I would be supportive with this if we had help backporting fixes and
> solving problems that may happen in production systems in 8u.
>

As you probably know, I am the single maintainer of the Marlin renderer,
all that FOSS work is done on my spare time with very low funding (gofundme
campaign only).

I can do the backporting work concerning the Marlin renderer as I do its
main development on OpenJDK8 already.

Anyway if any bug in the renderer is found, I already do the
synchronization to fix all active branches:
- my github: jdk8, jdk, jfx (8 branches)
- jdk (14), jfx-dev (14)
-  jdk11u
...
- jetbrains jdk8u_jdk PR on github

I could maintain 1 more openjdk8 branch but like you, I would appreciate
any help on backporting & testing.

Cheers,
Laurent


> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:05 AM Laurent Bourgès
> <bourges.laurent at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to discuss the opportunity to provide the Marlin renderer in
> OpenJDK8 updates.
> >
> > FYI it is the java2d antialiasing renderer that replaced Pisces in
> OpenJDK9 (integrated in 2015) that provide both better quality and
> performance.
> > I am still maintaining the code on github, openjdk and openjfx.
> > FYI the Marlin renderer has a very efficient path clipper since v0.9
> integrated in OpenJDK11 (2018.7).
> > Very few bugs (<5) were reported since 2015.
> >
> > Risks: azul zulu 8 and jetbrains jdk8 provide the Marlin renderer as
> their default renderer and it runs in production for years.
> > I am aware that amazon corretto would like to have it backported too.
> > AdoptOpenJDK already mentioned such possible backport on their web pages.
> >
> > Finally I propose to
> > - make a large patch (same marlin version as latest openjdk 14 ie
> 0.9.1.1) to easily backport fixes in the future
> > - leave it disabled by default. It will depend on the provider to enable
> it in its binary releases.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Laurent
>
>
>
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> Mario Torre
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