Hi Charles, I like Sanselan and so I did check out the websites. Below you wrote about what new comitters could do. As I read the website, the points didn't come to my mind like you said now. If one checks out Sanselan it looks like a quite feature complete project. It has less bugs and at first glance everything looks like it should be.
I guess you should try to write more about the drawbacks of the current sanselan and about how to improve those. For example, I read that you are planning to redesign the Sanselan class. But how? I cannot help without stepping on your tooth. I really hope Sanselan goes on, since it helped me lots before a while. Its a fantastic lib. Cheers! Christian On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:38 AM, Charles Matthew Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremias, > > As you point out, Sanselan hasn't drawn new contributors. > > I've been thinking over the question of how to get more people > involved in the Sanselan project for more than a year. The primary > obstacle seems to be that most people are interested in a very narrow > subset of image formats (jpg, gif, png, tiff) which Sanselan already > supports fairly well. These formats are very static - revisions to or > new versions of the formats simply don't happen. Almost all of the > commonly used features of these formats are well-supported. In short, > there's very little work to be done unless we change the scope of the > project. > > Improving support for reading and writing EXIF/IPTC data in jpeg > images addressed one of these key missing areas. There are a list of > things I personally would like to do on the project (more control over > how images are written, better documentation), but these are not > projects that have or are likely to attract new members to the > project. > > Other outstanding feature requests are either problematic or very > difficult. Reading and/or writing JPEG image data is a huge project, > which imho is already well served by alternatives to Sanselan (unless > we simply wrap ImageIO). Adding support for JBIG2 would be great, but > it would be a large project and so far, no one has volunteered to do > it. > > And so I don't expect there to be projects that are likely to > attract new contributors in the near future. This seems like a fatal > problem, as Apache measures the health of a project by the activity > and size of its community. > > Charles Matthew Chen > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Jeremias Maerki > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Deadline is up for submitting the report so I've just posted my draft >> report. If anyone has to change anything, please do so here: >> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/sanselan/board/2009-01.txt?view=markup >> and here: >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/January2009 >> (provided that one has not already been sent to the board in the >> meantime). >> >> Anyway, it doesn't look good for Sanselan if not more people get active. >> >> >> Jeremias Maerki >> >> >
