libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints

[partcyborg]

Hopefully standalone implementations of JPEG won't be required for much longer. The ongoing effort by the JPEG committee to supersede JPEG with JPEG-XL will also provide a new reference implementation of JPEG that supports both the old and the new formats, simplifying the transition process and hopefully consolidating efforts to support JPEG moving forward.

Except all the major browsers have dropped support for jpeg-xl

[aviallon]

> As it stands, libjpeg-turbo only has general funding for about 8-10 hours of labor per month. Finishing the 3.0 beta release required borrowing against all expected general funding for 2023

I completely don’t understand. OK, maintaining the serverver (with various compiler and static analysis pipelines) needs some money, but why the labor? Unless he is hiring someone to do the work for the project.

Eating and having a roof is an interesting concept.

[lectrode]

Except all the major browsers have dropped support for jpeg-xl

Most browsers based on chromium have, and only because google devs dropped it from the base code. Other browsers either still have the same level of support, or have progressed in some fasion (Palemoon, Librewolf, etc)

There's only so much google can stall when literally every other part of the ecosystem is pushing for the adoption of the new image format. Heck, even Apple (with their own heic format) has already implemented support for JPEG-XL in modern apple products and in their browser, making Safari of all things the first main-stream browser to fully implement support for it.

[sabian2008]

Most browsers based on chromium have, and only because google devs dropped it from the base code. Other browsers either still have the same level of support, or have progressed in some fasion (Palemoon, Librewolf, etc)

There's only so much google can stall when literally every other part of the ecosystem is pushing for the adoption of the new image format. Heck, even Apple (with their own heic format) has already implemented support for JPEG-XL in modern apple products and in their browser, making Safari of all things the first main-stream browser to fully implement support for it.

If only Chromium's engine had over 80% market share...

[carewolf]

8-10 hours a month sounds about right for a project without active feature development. That should be enough to close a few regular bugs, and prepare releases. Though it would have been nice if feature work could have continued. libjpeg-turbo has always had many missing features from libjpeg.

[stiiixy]

USA still using paper notage?

[jonkoops]

Reading the comments here, I can see how much ignorance there is about open-source maintainership. In a lot of cases this is one extremely hard working person keeping everything together, at basically no compensation. These people have lives, they have families they need to provide for. Still they continue to work on these passion products, whilst everyone complains "Why aren't you responding?", "Why is X not implemented, you suck!".

This type of abuse I have seen become more and more common in the open-source world. A bunch of self-righteous assholes complaining endlessly, contributing nothing themselves but endless harassment. This continues until the author is eventually burned out, and the project slowly sits there and putrifies.

If you really care about open-source, think before you post stupid comments that add nothing to a conversation but negativity. If you are able, support those hardworking maintainers with your wallet and donate. Or if your company relies on their work, make a contribution in developer time or monetarily.

Just don't be a fucking asshole.

[Joe2021]

If you really care about open-source, think before you post stupid comments that add nothing to a conversation but negativity. If you are able, support those hardworking maintainers with your wallet and donate. Or if your company relies on their work, make a contribution in developer time or monetarily.

Just don't be a fucking asshole.

Too many people aren't interested in freedom of open source, but just in freeloading.

But I have to admit: I am usually using web blockers, too.

[ultimA]

> As it stands, libjpeg-turbo only has general funding for about 8-10 hours of labor per month. Finishing the 3.0 beta release required borrowing against all expected general funding for 2023

I completely don’t understand. OK, maintaining the serverver (with various compiler and static analysis pipelines) needs some money, but why the labor? Unless he is hiring someone to do the work for the project.

Even if you try to spend time on the project from your "free-time", that is not much, considering you need time for family, friends, recreation, eating, cooking, sleeping etc.. So any significant amount of time you try to spend on a project needs to take away time from your paying work/job. Less work -> less income. Lot's of time on a hobby project -> little income. Little income -> living, eating, paying bills, mortgage become a problem.

So, yes, since he's putting in substantial labor, he needs external financial support. This is completely valid.

[RealNC]

Only a moron will use a gimped library that has no support for JPEG9 or JPEG XT

I believe libjpeg-turbo is the default in some Linux distros. (It can be used as a drop-in replacement for the official JPEG lib.)