Ok, sounds good. I agree. lets mark as WONTFIX or like the open clip art library, have a system so people can collect fonts together: http://openclipart.org/collections
Just so happens that the developer of that features is here in montreal and his name is brad phillips. Jon On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Nicolas Spalinger <[email protected]> wrote: > As I have indicated various times on the mailing-list and in-person, and > as had been agreed to in the past: you shouldn't release a mega- > collection of widly differing elements: different authors and origins, > different licensing, different scope and usage scenarios. A mega zip > file with hundred of Mb or Gigs of fonts that you will never use > together and that people will have to sift throught manually is a very > bad idea. > > Resisting to do this helps educate against a font-collection syndrom and > will make a statement that this service is different from the font > freeware hosting services. Instead it will encourage to learn to pick > the most appropriate font instead of downloading as many as you can in > one go together. > > openclipart is NOT the open font library. Different works, different > usage and scope, different licenses, different community. > > Leave packaging (and the corresponding packaging review) to the packaging > teams of the various distributions. > In any case packaging policies of the major distributions strongly reject > mega-tarballs with tons of differing components inside and ask for the > appropriate splits. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Open Font > Library Developers, which is subscribed to Open Font Library. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/718769 > > Title: > there isn't a complete download or packages of the collection > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Open Font Library Developers, which is subscribed to Open Font Library. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/718769 Title: there isn't a complete download or packages of the collection Status in Open Font Library: Won't Fix Bug description: need to make something like we have on openclipart rather than making by-hand packages. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~aikiframework.admins Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~aikiframework.admins More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
