Hi Christian, Thanks for the note - you make a good point. I'll start a page on the wiki with a list of possible projects soon - I'll post to the list again when its begun. Also, you could take a look at the the project's JIRA site.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SANSELAN Thanks, Charles On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Christian Grobmeier <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >> >
