On 18/06/11 11:20, Paul Flo Williams wrote: > She might have been half joking. Although packaging fonts is theoretically > easy because of the packaging templates we use, the state of upstream > archives is often very poor, with no clear versioning, missing licenses > and limited language coverage. Welcome :-) Yes that is what I was thinking as well after looking at a few other fonts on the wishlist. Upstream could be anybody producing and releasing fonts with no set policy for releases or versioning in place. > A foundry is an organisation or single person who issues fonts. The League > of Moveable Type is one such, and our foundry abbreviation for them is > tlomt. You'll find some of their other fonts have been packaged already, > so taking a look at those src.rpms may give you some pointers. Thanks, I guessed 'tlomt' as well which I guess was correct then. I didn't know there were some already packaged, looking through those .src.rpms would be hugely helpful. > If you look through the wiki pages of fonts that have already been > packaged, you'll find the bugzilla numbers of their review requests, and > looking through some of the comments in those reviews will help you avoid > common mistakes. Yes, that is the other thing I was wondering about and I will look it up. > I would recommend you join the fonts mailing list if you have further > questions. I have already done so and have joined the 'fonts-bugs' one as well just in case. Thanks for the welcome, Paul. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
