Metal/Reorg project weekly updates

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This discussion will be used to post, short and concise, weekly updates regarding Metal/Reorg project.

A project overview can be seen here:
https://github.com/orgs/maplibre/projects/8/views/3

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Work being done in week 16:

• Builders and drawables are work in progress

• Textures rework

• Fixes for iOS test

• A list of all 3’rd party libraries was created in order to check which ones can be dropped

Work to be done going forward in week 17:

• UBO design and implementation

• Explore how Textures should work with builders and drawables

• Research on RapidJSON and comparison with other similar libraries

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Work being done in week 17:

• Drawables and builders are work in progress
• UBO’s design and implementation are work in progress
• Research on RapidJSON and comparison with other similar libraries

Work to be done going forward in week 18:

• Continue on drawables and builders with the goal to have a stable initial version so work can be parallelised at layer level
• Continue on UBO’s design and implementation
• Explore how Textures should work with drawables and builders
• Fix for the failing render tests

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Work being done in weeks 18&19:

• UBO’s design and implementation
• LayerGroup base implementation
• Fix for the failing render tests
• BackGroundLayer and FillLayer implementation
• Work started on CircleLayer and LineLayer

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Work being done in week 20:

Various layers refactor was done on:

• CircleLayer
• LineLayer
• BackgroundLayer
• FillLayer