Hi Charles Another thing that would be cool is a JPEG decoder. The Sun JPEG codecs have some trouble handling CMYK JPEGs which requires some work-arounds when encountering them. But JBIG2 read/write support is by a big margin the one thing that is most interesting to me. If only I didn't have so much on my plate already.... Got to prioritize. :-(
On 14.03.2008 03:10:38 Charles Matthew Chen wrote: > Hi Jeremias, > > I decided that I'm over-committed and cannot volunteer for to be a > GSOC mentor. However, I'll add JBIG2 support to the list of requested > features. Are there any other features or improvements that you can > suggest? > > Charles. > > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 08.03.2008 02:47:08 Charles Matthew Chen wrote: > > > I like this idea, but I'm not sure Sanselan as an Apache project is > > > ready for this yet. We haven't even had a single Apache release yet. > > > Does anyone else have any thoughts about this? > > > > Why shouldn't it be ready? The incubation process is all about > > building community and attracting new people. GSOC is one way to show > > students what open source is all about. > > > > > > > I might be willing to support/mentor a student, but I'm not sure > > > what is involved. > > > > http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCodeMentor > > http://code.google.com/soc/2008/faqs.html > > > > > > > Would anyone else be willing to do this? > > > > I've decided not to do it. I'm spread to thin as it is and while JBIG2 > > is very nice-to-have I've got higher priorities. Sorry. > > > > > > > The deadline appears to be March 12th, which is terribly soon. I'm > > > not sure we could get a proposal ready in time anyhow. > > > > It's a five-minute job: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2008 > > > > > > > > > Charles. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jeremias Maerki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > GSoC is about to start. I just thought, it would be extremely good to > > > > have a JBIG2 codec for Java under an acceptable license. Both FOP and > > > > PDFBox (incubating) would benefit from that a lot! It would actually > > be > > > > a reason for FOP to adopt Sanselan in the first place as, at the > > moment, > > > > it doesn't offer anything over the duo: ImageIO and JAI ImageIO Tools. > > > > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2 > > > > > > > > This would make a good GSoC project, wouldn't it? However, I'm not > > sure, > > > > yet, if I should be a mentor on this if maybe I have another idea in > > the > > > > FOP-area where my priorities lie. Anyone around who would burn to be a > > > > mentor here? > > > > > > > > WDYT? > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Jeremias Maerki > > > > Jeremias Maerki
