Dear all, As some of you know Fedora 11 will feature automatic font installation¹.
This is a genuinely new feature that does not try to ape what other operating systems do and play on Linux's traditional attention to localization and internationalization. It's a free/libre alternative to the DRM-ed distribution channels proprietary foundries are pushing right now². However, awesome new installation code is not sufficient. To work well this feature requires a large and sane font package pool to draw on. To provide this pool the Fonts SIG has worked hard to define clear and sane packaging guidelines last year³. The maintainers of affected packages were notified two months ago of needed changes⁴. However, while many reacted fast, others have still not started looking at it⁵. With only one month left before Fedora 11 beta it's time for others to step up and help adapt the remaining packages. Please take a look at the bugzilla tracker⁴, adopt an open bug, and propose spec file changes there. Extensive documentation was written⁶ for this operation and you do not need to be a font expert to participate. Also, changing such a large pool of packages is never mistake-free, and we also need testers to QA⁷ the changes. Please take a look at the bugzilla tracker⁴, adopt a closed bug, and check the corresponding package was converted properly. I'm afraid we are massively short-handed right now. Please help. _________ ¹ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/AutomaticFontInstallation ² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_OpenType ³ Finally ratified in January 2009, but their expected content was public a long time before) https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-announce/2009-January/msg00007.html ⁴ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477044 ⁵ http://blog.stevecoinc.com/2009/02/help.html ⁶ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_%28FAQ%29 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:FontsPolicy ⁷ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Repackaging_of_Fedora_fonts#How_To_Test http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Improving_existing_font_packages -- Nicolas Mailhot
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