FreeType's GSoC projects

[Werner LEMBERG]

Dear Anurag, Craig, and Ahmet,


As you know by now, your FreeType GSoC projects have been selected –
congratulations, and welcome!  It is a pleasant surprise that we
actually have the possibility to mentor all three of you.


* Anurag will continue with integrating Raph Levien's 'font-rs'
  project as an alternative FreeType rendering module – for personal
  reasons it was not possible to properly finish this last year.

* Craig plans to implement a 'capabilities database' to the FreeType
  auto-hinter that should greatly enhance hinting for problematic
  characters like 'i' or 'ã'.

* Ahmet will work on integrating `ftbench` into FreeType's build
  structure to get a basic performance benchmarking framework.


First of all, please subscribe to the 'freetype-devel' mailing list in
case you haven't already done so.  This is *the* major contact to us
mentors, together with the greater wisdom of all people interested in
FreeType development.  It is of vital importance that you communicate
with us!  BTW, please neither do top-posting nor use HTML e-mails if
possible.

Now is the time to set up your working environments and ask related
questions.  We hope that you are as excited as we are :-)

I (Werner) plan to give you write access to the FreeType repository so
that you can set up personal branches.  To do so, I need Craig's and
Ahmet's gitlab account names; please tell me.

Ahmet, Anurag, please also send me your name as written in your native
script!


   Werner, Alexei, Toshiya