Hi David, I've been meaning to reply to your request but the list of things I wanted to communicate kept growing exponentially and so I have not been able to say.
But here, from a technical perspective this is my biggest issue, which you can also see as a roadmap: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango/-/issues/404#note_851881 I will keep trying to comment on the two GSoC projects, and eventually get to write about the health of the freetype as a community project. Cheers, behdad On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 1:03 PM David Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello freetype-devel@ list members, > > It's been a very very long time, but I have some free time in the coming > weeks to work on FreeType. Werner invited me to write a small announcement > here and I'm currently looking at the official bugs list. > > I'd like to know what are, in your opinion, the most pressing issues to > work on at that point? > > Apart from that, I had the following things in mind: > > - Improving / refactoring the build system a little. E.g. it should be > possible to simplify the rules.mk/module.mk files considerably, and > auto-generate most of the Makefiles / Jamfiles / CMakefiles from a single > source of truth (exact format to be defined), at least the parts that deal > with the headers / sources / configuration headers and the module > dependencies. > > - Improve testing (unit and regression tests to be exact) There are lots > of possibilities here, and it will probably better to do this in small > incremental steps. > > Voila, I'd be happy to read your suggestions, Happy to be here. > > - David Turner > -- behdad http://behdad.org/
