Re: Fonts maintainer team?
(from a discussion crossposted in two other lists, started by Andrea s Barth and followed up by Frans Pop) Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Saturday 30 December 2006 20:55, Andreas Barth wrote: So, my question is whether it would be sensible to setup some Debian Fonts Team who could team-maintain these packages in a common repository? Such an team has already been started by Christian Perrier: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-fonts/ I'm not entirely sure that this team has reached very ambitious goals yet (when I launched it, I talked about writing a font packages policy, which still has to be written down). I'm missing the needed time, and probably skills, to very efficiently animate this team and make it more than just a collection of individuals who maintain fonts...and share a common repository. This is maybe enough to at least achieve a few goals mentioned by aba, though. People who want to jump in that team are highly welcomed in pkg-fonts. The contact mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Re: Fonts maintainer team?
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:24:48PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Such an team has already been started by Christian Perrier: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-fonts/ I'm not entirely sure that this team has reached very ambitious goals yet (when I launched it, I talked about writing a font packages policy, which still has to be written down). I'm missing the needed time, and probably skills, to very efficiently animate this team and make it more than just a collection of individuals who maintain fonts...and share a common repository. This is maybe enough to at least achieve a few goals mentioned by aba, though. People who want to jump in that team are highly welcomed in pkg-fonts. The contact mailing list is [EMAIL PROTECTED] I spent some time during Xmas holidays thinking about an environment for testing fonts: actually the aim would be to easily create images showing how a font renders some text. I wrote down some notes wich I will post as soon as they're polished. I discussed this and was helped on this with the Dejavu developers. I'd also like to see more documentation (tutorials?) on how to hack fonts (for example about hinting) along with a policy for fonts. regards, Davide signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Fonts maintainer team?
Hi, I have seen a few recent issues of broken font packages - for more or less the same reason, but maintained by different, sometimes half- or full-MIA-people. On the other hand, there are quite stable font packages which don't need much work except something changes in packaging of X or TeX. So, my question is whether it would be sensible to setup some Debian Fonts Team who could team-maintain these packages in a common repository? Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
