Renovate the repo?

[akx]

Hey,

Related to python-pillow/Pillow#9649, I'd love to renovate this repo so e.g. the blend benchmark from that PR could be incorporated here, and eventually Pillow's performance over time could be measured, either by hand or with CodSpeed or similar solutions.

My plan is, at the moment:

• rewrite (probably with an AI agent, since it's a simple refactor task) the current test suite in pytest-benchmark terms; pytest-benchmark does measurements more scientifically than the current "run it 11 times and see if that works", for one :)
• set up standard Python packaging
• remake the frontend with Astro instead of a homegrown Webpack setup

If that sounds fine, I can make some (probably unfortunately pretty large) PRs.

Some questions though:

• There's support code for Pillow 2.6 or so - would that be something we'd want to keep in? (I'd say no.)

[hugovk]

pytest-benchmark + CodSpeed could be useful, and probably in the main repo, so we can see how PRs affect performance?

I don't think we'd want any frontend stuff in the main repo though. And 2.6 stuff can go :)

[akx]

New and improved plan, then:

• port the Pillow test cases from here into pytest-benchmarks to be included in the main repo, as, say, Tests/bench_* (so they're not collected or run by pytest by default).
• Maybe, in the future, look into renovating this repo so it pulls benchmark results for the performance comparison from CI?