Re: New OpenJFX Committer: Laurent Bourgès

[Jonathan Giles]

Vote: yes

-- Jonathan

On 12/12/17, 1:25 PM, "openjfx-dev on behalf of Kevin Rushforth" 
 
wrote:

I hereby nominate Laurent Bourgès [1] to OpenJFX Committer.

Laurent is the author of the Marlin rasterizer, which is used as the 
default rasterizer for both Java2D and JavaFX. He has contributed 10 
changesets [2] to OpenJFX.

Votes are due by December 25, 2017.
(Given the Christmas holiday in the US, it will be at least one week 
after that before I publish the results).

Only current OpenJFX Committers [3] are eligible to vote on this 
nomination. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4]. Nomination to a project 
Committer is described in [5].

Thanks.

-- Kevin

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#lbourges

[2] 
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/jfx-dev/rt/log?rev=author%28lbourges%29

[3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#openjfx

[4] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#lazy-consensus

[5] http://openjdk.java.net/projects#project-committer

[10] Review request: 8191176: JavaFX Self-Contained Application fails with error "Failed to find library: jvm.dll"

[victor . drozdov]

Kevin,

Please review the changes about fixing the error "Failed to find 
library: jvm.dll"


JIRA: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8191176
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vdrozdov/JDK-8191176/webrev.00/

--Victor

Re: Innovation again (was Re: Text classes)

[John-Val Rose]

I posted this over a week ago:

> I am willing to work with *anyone* (within Oracle or not) on the features
that the community craves,
> such as those I listed (and any others). Not just because “many hands
make light work” but because
> I don’t know everything (or even close) and I need the knowledge and
skills of others to assist me. Not
> to mention that I have only 24 hours in a day like everyone else and,
also like everyone else, some of
> that time has to be devoted to earning an income.
>
> So, if there’s anyone reading this who has the time, the skills, the
commitment and the passion to work hard (in your own time) to get these
tasks done then please contact me privately.

To my significant disappointment, only one person has contacted me since
then in relation to this proposal.

I'm beginning to think that I am completely out of touch with the JavaFX
community, what they actually want and also with exactly *what* JavaFX is
or is meant to be.

I have reached out on this list and via Twitter in the hope that an
inspired and passionate group of developers could come together, pool their
resources and collaborate on taking JavaFX as far is it can possibly go as
a fully-fledged hardware-accelerated graphics toolkit for the JVM.

But... it seem that my "vision" for JavaFX is unique to me and I have to
say that I really don't understand why that is.

Is it that the JavaFX community see it as merely a Swing replacement or
"upgrade" and that there just aren't people out there who want to do more
sophisticated things with a Java-based toolkit or at least see performance
increase dramatically?

Or, do people feel that the kind of features you can find in say Qt cannot
be added to JavaFX because it's a "Java thing": well all know how slow Java
is and that if you want to do real animations, visualisations etc. then you
have to use C++?

Well, it's not the 1990s anymore.  Java is NOT the problem.

So, what IS the problem?

I have to say that as chief architect for my company, if the JavaFX
community (and I include Oracle as a big part of that) simply don't want to
see innovation in JavaFX, won't support or contribute to making it happen
or feel they don't need it, causing JavaFX to lag further and further
behind other graphic toolkits and never be capable of supporting such
features as advanced animations, visualisations, games, 3D, VR, AR and have
proper HTML5 support etc. then, despite being a huge Java fan and advocate,
JavaFX simply can't even be on the table of technologies to choose from
when I'm developing a technological strategy.

So, I'd like to ask this multi-part question in the hope that as many
people reply as possible:

*** For *your* siutation, what is JavaFX, how do you want it to evolve and
what does it mean to you? ***

Maybe I really am "Robinson Crusoe"...

​​
Graciously,

John-Val Rose
Chief Scientist/Architect
Rosethorn Technology


On 6 December 2017 at 17:16, John-Val Rose  wrote:

> Absolutely - there needs to be a viable community that is not just Oracle.
>
> So, is there one? If not, how do we build one?
>
> OK, so let me rephrase my earlier email:
>
> I am willing to work with *anyone* (within Oracle or not) on the features
> that the community craves, such as those I listed (and any others). Not
> just because “many hands make light work” but because I don’t know
> everything (or even close) and I need the knowledge and skills of others to
> assist me. Not to mention that I have only 24 hours in a day like everyone
> else and, also like everyone else, some of that time has to be devoted to
> earning an income.
>
> So, if there’s anyone reading this who has the time, the skills, the
> commitment and the passion to work hard (in your own time) to get these
> tasks done then please contact me privately.
>
> > On 6 Dec 2017, at 16:50, Philip Race  wrote:
> >
> > There needs to be a viable community that is not just Oracle to support
> you here ..
> > I think everyone has come to be dependent on Oracle to "be there".
> > But if there is a specific community need that Oracle doesn't see as
> essential, then the community should help out.
> >
> > -phil.
> >
> >> On 12/5/17, 9:27 PM, John-Val Rose wrote:
> >> Well, that’s all fine but you didn’t address the issue of working with
> someone within Oracle to get these innovations done.
> >>
> >> Sure, I could just toil away by myself but clearly it would be better
> all around if there was someone with much more extensive knowledge of
> JavaFX and its internals who was accessible when required.
> >>
> >> I would assume that a member of the Oracle JavaFX team would be such a
> person. If not, then who?
> >>
> >>> On 6 Dec 2017, at 15:53, Philip Race  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think looking at it as an Oracle-owned and controlled project maybe
> the first mistake here.
> >>> Yes it was closed source and then Oracle controlled, but not any more,
> OCA requirements aside.
> >>> It 

RE: CFV: New OpenJFX Committer: Laurent Bourgès

[ankit srivastav]

Vote: Yes

--Ankit

On 12 Dec 2017 11:28 a.m., "Ajit Ghaisas"  wrote:

Vote : YES

Regards,
Ajit

-Original Message-
From: Kevin Rushforth
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 5:50 AM
To: Laurent Bourgès; openjfx-dev@openjdk.java.net
Subject: CFV: New OpenJFX Committer: Laurent Bourgès

I hereby nominate Laurent Bourgès [1] to OpenJFX Committer.

Laurent is the author of the Marlin rasterizer, which is used as the
default rasterizer for both Java2D and JavaFX. He has contributed 10
changesets [2] to OpenJFX.

Votes are due by December 25, 2017.
(Given the Christmas holiday in the US, it will be at least one week after
that before I publish the results).

Only current OpenJFX Committers [3] are eligible to vote on this
nomination. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4]. Nomination to a project
Committer is described in [5].

Thanks.

-- Kevin

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/census#lbourges

[2]
http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/jfx-dev/rt/log?rev=author%28lbourges%29

[3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#openjfx

[4] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#lazy-consensus

[5] http://openjdk.java.net/projects#project-committer