Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Sagnik Mitra
Hello Alexei, We are sorry to propose our "pile of nonsense" idea. Won't do it again. Both of us liked the website, so thought of some improvement ideas. Good to hear such words from you. Also, we haven't mentioned our stacks or idea in detail regarding the "Full Stack Community Platform with

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Hi Sagnik, Ok. In that case, you have to be specific about your ideas. What is that you find messy and what to improve? General "Full Stack" won't fly with us. You can submit your proposal to GSoC, but we do not give any guarantees up front. We have limited number of slots and our priorities are

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Our peers: https://skia.org/ is nice https://www.mesa3d.org/ is good https://www.openjpeg.org/ is good https://www.libpng.org/ is down In comparison, we stack pretty good. I do not see much need in improvement here. In other words, it's better be justified. Alexei

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Nikhil Ramakrishnan
> > Maybe that could be used as a starting point? > > Starting point for what? > This was in reference to Werner's suggestion to improve the website. When we migrated the documentation to markdown, I had done a markdown version for the contents of freetype.org as well (should still be live at

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
> Maybe that could be used as a starting point? Starting point for what? The initial email is a pile of nonsense: Backend to Frontend, Full Stack Community Platform with ***Zero*** ***Intelligent*** ***Ideas*** hehind it. Our documentation website is much better than our peers' ones. We did

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Nikhil Ramakrishnan
Quick note: We do have a markdown version of the website from a few years ago that we never actually transitioned to. Maybe that could be used as a starting point? Nikhil

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG
Hello Manish, > Through Community Platform, I meant a Full Stack Forum for the > upcoming contributors or the Developers within where they can > interact with each other. Thanks for your offer, but no. The 'official' communication channels for FreeType are intentionally e-mail only. Having

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-02 Thread Alexei Podtelezhnikov
Your proposal does not make sense to me at all. Therefore, I am vehemently against it.

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-02 Thread Manish Kumar Barnwal
Thank you for your response. On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 2:11 AM Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: > Your proposal does not make sense to me at all. Therefore, I am vehemently > against it. > > >

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-02 Thread Manish Kumar Barnwal
Hello Moazin, Through Community Platform, I meant a Full Stack Forum for the upcoming contributors or the Developers within where they can interact with each other. And also, we have planned about improving the landing page and other linked pages, if you allow us to do so. Regards, Manish On

Re: Proposing a new Idea for Freetype

2021-04-02 Thread Moazin K
Hi Manish, What do you mean by Community Platform? Best, Moazin On Sat, Apr 3, 2021 at 1:10 AM Manish Kumar Barnwal < manishbarnwal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Freetype Team, > > I am Manish Kumar Barnwal, a web development enthusiast, having experience > with Backend Development. I went