Le jeudi 10 décembre 2009 à 16:52 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit : > Hi, > > On 9 Dec 2009, at 18:12, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > > Le mercredi 09 décembre 2009 à 17:28 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit : > > > >> Ah! OK. > >> > >> Perhaps: "The software expression of typeface designs" > >> > >> Thus limiting OFLB to: > >> - being a repository for files > >> - providing information about their creation and best use > > > > I sort of hoped OFLB would be more than yet another www file dump > and > > would build the infrastructure needed to : > > - track file changes > > "repository"?
repository just means a place to put files. It says nothing about tracking their changes. This is a real change tracker http://dejavu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dejavu/ (except, svn, yurk) > > - track legal changes > > - sanity-check fonts, identify problems, notify font authors > > - give them the tools to work collaboratively on new designs > > - promote best technical and legal practices > > > > But I guess that was just misplaced expectations on my part. Surely, > > most of the work so far has been oriented towards font gallery > needs, > > and little else, so I should not be surprised. > > We can't currently identify technical flaws in fonts but OFLB v2 will > prevent users uploading fonts that are not provided with the correct > licence text. Does that help promote best practices to some extent? This is baby steps. Even the high-level tests we do @fedora do more than that. http://nim.fedorapeople.org/repo-font-audit-fedora-devel-20091128T215022Z.tar.xz I freely admit we suck on the web gallery front, though. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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