Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Le Lun 26 janvier 2009 16:04, Stephen Carter a écrit : >>> Our wishlist stood at 56 entries for last report. It has now reached >>> the >>> 76 entries watermark. The current fonts packagers are clearly unable >>> to >>> cope with Fedora demands, fresh blood is needed before it moves into >>> 3-digits land. > > Hi Stephen, > >> Well then in that case, you may be happy to hear that you have a new >> fonts packager: me. ^.^ > > /me cheers > >> My name is Stephen, and I'm a student in the LUX program at Seneca >> College in Toronto Canada, studying Linux. For a class project, I will >> be packaging up as many fonts as I can, and (hopefully) getting them >> into Fedora. > > It will be very good to have someone that packages enough fonts to > identify common problems and suggest ways to help font upstreams > produce something easily packaged. > >> I'm mostly clear on the technical details of making the packages, but >> I'm unfamiliar with the whole process for getting the package approved >> and whatnot. If someone could point me in the next direction, that >> would be great! > > The whole organisational part of getting a font in Fedora is described > here: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Font_package_lifecycle > >> Also, I'm on IRC a lot, is there an IRC channel where I could ask >> questions specifically related to fonts-packaging? > > The canonical channel dedicated to FLOSS fonts on IRC is ##fonts on > irc.freenode.net (multi-distro). You can also ask general fedora > packaging questions on #fedora-devel. > > We have packagers on many different timezones, so depending on the > hour there may be no one awake, or people just rising, or people > finishing their night. Don't give up if you have no answer in the same > hour :p > > PS: You should also take the time to read > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_(FAQ) > > and skim the rest of the Fonts SIG wiki > Thanks for the quick response, all those links do answer quite a few questions, but I have one more: What should I do with fonts on the wishlist that I am working on, or planning on working on? Do I just edit the wiki and remove them from the wishlist, move them to a different page, or what? Basically, what I want to know is, how do I let people know "Hey I'm working on this font!" So that someone else doesn't duplicate my work. Stephen _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
