Thanks Thomas for reviewing the current state of the pull request. Looks like 
it may end up be an experimental renderer for in a future release. 

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, at 11:26 AM, thomas bonfort wrote:
> I had a look at the skia PR. Even apart from the fact that it is 50 to 80% 
> slower than agg, I'd say there's less than 5% on the features ready for it to 
> be feature-equal with today's agg and cairo backend (basically only flat 
> polygons and simple lines are implemented, all the rest (labelling, symbology 
> etc) is not touched. Not waiting on it for 8.2 is a no-brainer.
> regards,
> TB
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 1:56 AM Lime, Steve D (MNIT) via MapServer-dev 
> <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>> +1 on a feature-freeze for 8.2 - did we hit all the feature targets?
>> 
>> I'm also find with waiting on the Skia renderer. 
>> 
>> --Steve
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MapServer-dev <mapserver-dev-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> On Behalf Of 
>> Seth G via MapServer-dev
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 4:04 PM
>> To: MapServer Devs <mapserver-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Re: [MapServer-dev] MapServer 8.2 Release Plan
>> 
>> +1 on a feature-freeze for 8.2.
>> 
>> A new renderer will need tests/docs so would push things out, plus it would 
>> be a good feature to drive an 8.4 release (assuming development is 
>> completed).
>> 
>> Seth
>> 
>> On Wed, Mar 27, 2024, at 8:59 PM, Jeff McKenna via MapServer-dev wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > There has been so much activity lately, that it seemed better to wait 
>> > until the changes were completed/committed.  I haven't started the 
>> > release candidates process for that reason.  I am going to also 
>> > include a MapCache release during this same effort.  (it's great to 
>> > see Bjorn's efforts, I've been watching closely, thanks again Bjorn!!)
>> >
>> > I guess the big question is, are we all ok with starting a 
>> > feature-freeze as of now?
>> >
>> > -jeff
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 2024-03-27 4:24 p.m., Seth G via MapServer-dev wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I'm assuming the release date for 8.2 won't be the end of March date 
>> >> listed in the wiki at [1].
>> >> The Skia Renderer pull request that had a few updates this week [2] - are 
>> >> we planning to wait for this for the 8.2 release? Has anyone been in 
>> >> contact with Bjorn about it?
>> >>
>> >> Seth
>> 
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