Blueprint changed by rejon:
Whiteboard changed:
I think this sounds super super complicated!
== TODO ==
Figure out how to detect the ${fontFamilyName} from the font files
Figure out how to deal with families of fonts to generate the CSS
properly
Figure out how to deal with remixes properly - when you visit a parent
it should be very obvious that child versions are available, especially
if they have similar names - we want to provide version control
properly, eventually, but the simple thing to do in the mean time is to
just freeze uploads when they happen, and make it obvious that a new
version is available.
Allow the user to specify the preview text used to generate the PCFP
images, and the font preview CSS on the family page, during the upload
process, and make the text smarter based on fontaine's language support
of the font
Figure out how to deal with TTF (if OTF), SVG, EOT, WOFF web font
formats - generate if not already included? OFL renaming issue! "Your
ZIP file does not contain versions of your fonts suitable for all web
browsers. We can generate TTF, SVG, EOT and WOFF format fonts for you
now, if you'd like. We add "OFLB" to the fonts' names to make it clear
they are derivatives made by this site. Please tick this box to agree to
this use of your Reserved Font Names [x]"?
Update fontaine to detect ubuntu font license
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more:
It's very annoying to get an OFL font and not know where it's coming from or
even if it claims reserved names. Some authors just specify "OFL" as if that
was sufficient. The OFLB upload form should therefore have checkboxes for
uploaders to confirm they have done their homework applying the license in an
ideal way. Including a copy of the license in the font. TrueType and OpenType
allow for this easily and FontForge has made it very easy to add the OFL to
fonts. The upload form should prominently link to a page on [[Font metadata|how
to include a license inside font files]] that gives a step-by-step guide to
doing this; ideally this would be screenshot-illustrated.
+
+ ###
+
+ still more:
+
+
+
+ We need to agree if files should be filtered on an include or exclude bases.
Exclude may be better than include. We need to decide a definitive list if it's
include-based. For an exclude list, we should exclude files with .exe .php and
so on, and include any files not matching this ban-list. But, one can always
change a file name extension to something else, so testing against the file
extension is probably not very useful.... PHP's $_FILES['userfile']['type']
will indicate the file's mime type if provided by the browser, but how do
browsers determine the mime type for uploaded files? The *nix "file" command
reads the file headers and determines file type based on the pattern of bytes
in the headers of files -- that is the most reliable way to do it. But browsers
may not use a similar method. Perhaps the "Report possible License violation"
feature could be duplicated/extended to "Report possible malicious file" so a
simple machine filter like file extensions would have a social safety net. In
the supposed "upload zip, uncompress zip, if other files added, compress all
the files into a new zip" process, running the "file" command on the files to
check their type matches their file extension at the "uncompress zip" and
"files added" stages would be great.
+
+ $fontlog field should complain if empty. Adding a FONTLOG.txt should
+ work - TXT to become an allowed file type. Uploading a FONTLOG.txt when
+ the $fontlog box is null should make the contents of the TXT be copied
+ to the field. Fontlog field should process markdown when rendered, and
+ when edited, should have a note saying that it has no rich text like the
+ Description field because its often distributed as plain text, but link
+ to Markdown and explain it briefly.
+
+ Extract reliable information about the Unicode coverage of typeface
+ families and use that metadata to add type-centric statistics to the
+ site, such as signposting which orthographies need better coverage by
+ free software fonts.
+
+ Allow a form of version control of the fonts, so that users have the
+ ability to see changes in the filesets of each typeface and retrieve
+ older versions of the typeface. It has been suggested that we adapt
+ existing ccHost features for this purpose.
+
+ Have the Upload forms upload a font file as soon as it is selected, and
+ parse its metadata and auto-complete other fields in the form. This is a
+ pretty speculative idea, but would make the upload forms easier.
+
+ It seems we want two upload forms: "One click/Easy upload form" -
+ provide a TTF, a name, read a notice confirming that its OFL, click
+ upload - and, "Detailed upload form" - all the stuff required for a
+ typeface family covering multiple scripts with multiple weights and
+ variants and some unusual but free license. A JS library can be used to
+ make the easy upload form transform like an Transformers Autobot into
+ the detailed one.
+
+ The upload form/docs should encourage '''authors themselves''' to upload
+ their own fonts. If others who are not authors post a font it should be
+ clearly marked as such ("on behalf of" or something like that -
+ [http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/davelab6/325 OFLBv1 has
+ "featuring"]) to indicate who the upstream author is, and provide a link
+ to the upstream site when it is known. A tickbox "I have checked that
+ this font isn't violating any author rights" or similar could be useful.
+ Or fields for admins only on the upload form that allows admins to
+ denote a font is importing from an existing project on their behalf, eg
+ Liberation or DejaVu. The effect would be to remove the byline on the
+ typeface page (such as incorrectly shown in
+ http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files/crossland/4 )
+
+ Remix: auto-add the stuff from the original sources to the new FONTLOG?
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