Le vendredi 16 mars 2018 à 19:47 +0000, Nikolaus Waxweiler a écrit : > > 2. There were no obvious ways to contribute because open-source > tooling either didn't exist or was something you didn't want to use > (Fontforge I'm looking at you) Please, don't rewrite history, DejaVu had already proven at that time fontforge was more than good enough for a complex modern font. Those projects chose font upstreams that had no interest in encouraging contributions (either because they were “professionals” or because they were overcommitted one-man operations). They didn't invest anything to make sure contributions could happen or would be welcomed. It was shameful, even granddaddy Bitsream Vera was better organised. As a result contributions died down. That's what the ”professional” mindview gets you: dead projects with no live community and no future once the contractor funds die down. Especially when you make sure to market the resulting font as an identity marker, so everyone understands it's your business and your business alone to improve the font, and third parties are not welcome. -- Nicolas Mailhot _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
