I'll just copy some points I've already made on the marketing list where Liberation was announced: > The package needs work first: > - the spec does not follow our current rules (forces a fontconfig dep) > - it lacks any form of fontconfig setup, which is required if you want > the ms core font substitution to actually work > - the license file is not properly encoded and is dumped in the wrong > place > > Also: > - a lot of obvious questions are not answered on the web site or in > the package [1] > - the screen and print priority of the font was never discussed in > Fedora instances, which is not a problem for a minor font but is if > you want it to be one of the primary distro ones [1] > 1. Is this a long-term Red Hat project or will it go stagnant after > initial funding dries out ? (Luxi and Vera-like) > > 2. Does Red Hat intend to morph it in a community project (with the > usual wiki+bugzilla+open SCM infrastructure) or will contributions be > restricted to the contracted foundry (ie will it need a fork like Vera > before joining community space ?) > > 3. what is the reasonning behind the licensing choice? Most recent > FLOSS font projects seem to be gravitation towards OFL, and licensing > differences make cross-pollination difficult > > 4. will unicode coverage ever extend past Latin, Greek and Cyrillic ? > Is Latin, Greek and Cyrillic support limited to most common glyphs or > does it also includes regional variants (welsh, catalan, coptic, etc) > > 5. is it intended to be the new RHEL or Fedora default font set or > just a windows compatibility pack ? > > 6. why did Red Hat choose to launch a new font project instead of > improving one of the existing FLOSS fonts? Was metric compatibility > the main reason? If so is it not dangerous to target the windows > 2000/XP font set when vista just introduced a new default font set ? > 7. who is supposed to field this kind of question? 8. who is supposed to push the package through the Fedora QA process? -- Nicolas Mailhot
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