Le dimanche 18 juillet 2010 à 12:49 +0200, Hans de Goede a écrit :
Hi,
On 07/18/2010 12:06 PM, Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
Hi,
2010/7/18 Hans de Goedehdegoede@redhat.com:
I think those packages whose spec's need to be re-written should block F14Target and volunteer's are welcome to post patches/fix them. Recently I come across few packages which need to follow current fonts packaging guidelines. I start working on those but found openfontlibrary.org is almost broken and for those fonts it is upstream. I am now searching those fonts if have some other publisher. If i will find any other foundry then will use and import it in Fedora otherwise my suggestion will be to retire those packages whose upstream are gone now.
Unless I read the thread wrong openfontlibrary.org will return. Also I see no reason to drop packages just because there upstream is gone.
Current fonts guidelines asks for using foundry name in font
package. If based on initial import where upstream URL is no longer exists but its allowed to use that and use oflb as foundry name then I am more willing to work on it.
Sure, there's no need to change it, unless the author permanently moved to something else.
Ok, so this is about the rule of having a foundry name in the font package name. I think that it is fine to keep using oflb as foundry name for fonts which were initially packaged as such. Esp as the openfontlibrary.org site will return to normal operations in some time AFAIK.
The OFLB soerely needs some stability, but it's very young yet, so :(
Please tell me if this is ok. If you think its ok I will submit
new, to be renamed packages for package review. If this is not ok then let those bugs be open forever.....
I don't think that the fonts need to be renamed again and again and again, lets just pick a name and stick with it. Note that I'm not really a font guy though.
Changing hosting is work so most fonts have stable homes. One just needs to be careful to identify the canonical one the first time a font is packaged (some have dozens of secondary web sites)
Regards,