I hope "you" didn't mean me personally, as I lack the bandwidth to take on even
more responsibilities, but assuming you meant "the OpenImageIO project", then
yes, I think it would be great to bring a solid set of Rust bindings and the
obviously named crate under the management umbrella of the OpenImageIO project.
Is your offer to merge this effort into the OpenImageIO project and also for
you or others in this conversation to help support and grow it on an ongoing
basis? Because what we really need to make this plan work is for somebody (or
several somebodies) to step forward and commit to being the OpenImageIO Rust
czar(s).
As an aside, we need this in several areas, that is, for somebody other than me
to come and take the lead in certain sections of the code base. As just one
example, we *desperately* need somebody knowledgeable to be the "Windows lead"
for the project. This whole project, which is critical infrastructure in so
many products and studios, is dangerously over-dependent on my availability. I
feel like there were earlier years in which there was more sharing of the work,
but lately I feel much more of it falls directly on me than is healthy. Even
most of the code I write and submit never gets anybody truly reviewing the PRs
and after a few days I merge as long as nobody objects. Maybe because OIIO does
so much and works overall so well, I think people underestimate how much effort
it takes to keep it working and growing, and how close to the edge we are
simply by having so much of the internals and the management going through the
hands of a single person.
-- lg
> On Oct 19, 2020, at 7:36 PM, Scott Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Also, I forgot to mention, I'm now the proud owner of
> https://crates.io/crates/openimageio <https://crates.io/crates/openimageio>
> (among several other crates such as OpenVDB, OpenColorIO, etc). I'd like to
> hand it off to the project owners of the libraries they represent (such as
> the OIIO project, ASWF, etc). The other crates are another story (I'll send a
> message on the ASWF community forum), but I'd like to hand the OIIO crate off
> to this project. Larry, if you want to take ownership of it, then it's all
> yours. I can also keep some level of joint ownership of the crate if you want
> as well. I'm open to anything.
--
Larry Gritz
[email protected]
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