Debian's working on a font tarball template - please check and comment
Nicolas Spalinger
nicolas_spalinger at sil.org
Fri Jul 4 11:30:09 UTC 2008
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> -------- Message transféré --------
> De: Nicolas Spalinger
> À: OFLB
>> The note maybe but zipping font files with a detached .TXT file is good
>> practice and should be promoted.
>
> Indeed. 100% agreed :-)
>
> I'd also highly recommend a file in the release tarball describing the
> chosen licensing and some kind of readme/changelog. Actually that's why
> the OFL is promoting the concept of a FONTLOG and provides a template.
>
> BTW, here's a proposed VCS branch and tarball template for an open font:
> http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-fonts/foo-open-font-sources/?rev=0&sc=0
>
> Your feedback very welcome,
>
> Cheers,
Dear Nicolas (and everyone),
Thanks for fwd-ing to the Fedora list :-)
Let me quickly add that this is not intended to be Debian-specific at
all but comes from suggestions and discussions with SIL designers,
various people at the last LGM (Libre Graphics Meeting) TLM
(TextLayoutMeeting) and UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit). More like a
cross-distro, cross-OS type spec actually.
The purpose is to make life easier for designers/script engineers
wanting to use a (D)VCS for collaborative open font design and *also*
for packagers who make this work available in the distros :-)
Awaiting your feedback.
Cheers,
--
Nicolas Spalinger
http://scripts.sil.org
http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org/
https://launchpad.net/people/fonts
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