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 Goede<hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >>> 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, -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ fonts mailing list fonts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/
