The Plan for Picturefill

[Wilto]

Picturefill 2.2 just shipped, which we’re incredibly excited about. Now, you might notice that there aren’t as many changes in this latest version as you’d hoped. And in some cases, there are still situations where we’re deviating slightly from the specification—never in massive glaring ways, but we’re striving for total spec compliance here.

We have high hopes for Picturefill 2.3, but there’s a reason 2.2 is a modest release: we’re short-handed. We have tremendous support from the RICG, but we’re short on day-to-day coding time—we have a lot going on in the RICG, from getting responsive images into the WordPress core to starting the effort for element queries. That’s where we need your help.

Even though the script itself is relatively small, Picturefill is a massive open source project in terms of usage and scope. We need to grow the team if we want to keep up.

Sound off in the comments here if you want to join the team, and I’m happy to help you get started. I’ve got a Slack channel started up for Picturefill team discussion (and we can go with an IRC channel if people are more comfortable there).

I didn’t cut any corners on the 2.3 milestone. There are a hell of a lot of people depending on Picturefill to do their day-to-day work, and we’ll be adding every single WordPress user to that list soon. If you want to be a part of bringing real responsive images to the web, I want to hear from you, and I want to work with you on this.

[aFarkas]

me ;-)

[benedfit]

Sign me up

[sherred]

Let's do this

[nhoizey]

I'm not really good enough in JS to help on the library code, but I can give time to help make some tests, enhance the docs and examples, etc.

[vfalconi]

Down.

[jegtnes]

Same as @nhoizey–my JS-fu is lacking, but I'd love to help with docs, issue triaging, etc.

You have my sword.

[mike-engel]

I may not be the best at Javascript either, but I can certainly try and help. There's also documentation and testing I can do as well!

[jonathantneal]

[slicethendice]

Count me in!

[Wilto]

Awesome.

Alongside all of us doing the heavy-duty JS, I think a “triage team” is a great idea—working on docs, reproducing issues and building test cases, keeping the issue tracker sorted, etc.

So yeah, we’d be psyched to have everyone on this thread involved. Shoot me an email at mat at matmarquis dot com so I have your address, and I’ll get everyone invited shortly.

[zoltan-dulac]

I am definitely in. I've done a bit of research already on alternative image formats (WEBP, JPEG-XR and JPEG 2000), and am totally up to getting on board building support one way or another with them as well as anything else that needs to be done (think project, IMHO, is a really important one).

[bryanstedman]

Happy to help out where I can

[4nduril]

I also would like to help on this. I'll write you an email.