Behdad Esfahbod pisze: > Julian Sikorski wrote: > >> Looks like the current strategy works then, but quite slowly in some >> cases. The main issue I see here is that freedesktop bugzilla seems to >> be a black hole - I added a comment to bug #13416 half a year ago and >> got zero response from upstream developers, so please forgive me my >> slight frustration at this point - it's not that I didn't try, but if no >> one upstream gives a damn about the problem, I tried to find allies >> here, who could possibly have more convincing power. Attracting >> attention - that was the purpose of my post. > > That "they" thinking is so broken. "Upstream developers" is not a group of > aliens. Ask on any IRC channel who maintains fontconfig and people will tell > you. Currently Keith Packard makes a release every year. That is, he spends > two or three days every year to make a release with patches that are ready to > go in. The only other person spending time on it has been me, preparing > patches for Keith when release time gets close. So in one sense there is no > upstream developers. Want to change that? Become one. > > That said, I'm going to spend some time before the end of the year on getting > a fontconfig tree ready for release. I'll take a look at your issue. > > behdad > >> Julian > I would happily become an upstream dev, but unfortunately I can't code. What I can do is testing patches, which could be helpful in case, as you said, the fonts you are using are not exhibiting the issue. I could also provide more information if necessary, but I'd need some guidance how to obtain it. Thanks for looking into it in advance! Julian -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
