Quick update on project status

[Igor Nekrestyanov]

Hi there,

There was not much activity on this list but project is alive :)

Here is brief update on the project status.

At the moment proposed fix for replacing encumbered T2K library with 
freetype is under code review.
Upon approval (it is over 3500 lines and review will likely take some 
time and several iterations)
changes will start making their way to master workspace and going public.
Depending on integration windows schedule this will take few weeks to 
land on openjdk.java.net.

Changes introduce abstraction of scaler engine (sun.font.FontScaler) and 
implementations for Freetype and T2K.
They were tested with freetype 2.3.4 but likely should work with all 
2.3.* versions.

Obviously further improvements are possible and more testing is required.
Especially for freetype-based scaler implementation.

But hopefully this project can evolve faster as we can work on it 
together in the public workspace.

Let me know if you are interested to help with improving freetype based 
implementation.
Perhaps we can find way to get you involved even before changes become 
available to general public.

-igor