People have been asking for updates (even ScottK while I've been writing this!), so I'm going to try and post daily(?) situation reports; I was originally going to distribute this privately, but at the suggestion of somebody on the release team, I'll post the updates to the bug report so that everyone has a clearer picture and nobody gets missed out. Target:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+milestone/0.70 Current ETA guessimate: "next week". As follows: 0a. 'ubuntu-typeface-interest' PPA access Two websites have been contacted asking them to redirect enthusiastic Ubuntu users to the instructions for the 'ubuntu-typeface-interest' group specifically for the purpose: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubuntu_Font_Family#Howto An article change by the first website resulted in an immediate addition of >100 new users, followed by ~35 requests per day. (Total now >= 300). The second website have not replied to Email or IRC messages yet. Attempts to make contact are continuing. 1a. Short-term libre-licensing (bug #632411) - Mark + N Blocker: There was a hectic twenty-four-hour-period on Thursday as an additional person was brought into the loop. Mark and Nicholas are working on the licensing. Copyright assignment would be required in order to allow for progressive relicensing and thus the assignment procedure will be documented, see (7b). 1b. Longer-term libre-licensing - Mark + $others Partial blocker (for documentation): Dave has sent Paul a (large) Google document covering points that needed to be noted for (1b), Paul doing comments and dots+commas over the weekend. Will go to Mark after that, but is needed in the shorter term for license-FAQ writing. 6. Harmonise the versioning (bug #629727) - Done Complete: Consenus was reached to use N.MM versioning (minor version of '00-99'), zeros always present and any small change causes an increment. This system meets the requirements of (a) the .ttf 'name' table string format, (b) the .ttf 'head' table binary fraction, (c) the Debian Policy 'Version:' specification. Major number will indicate metrics stability, and will be in the control of Canonical. The methodology will be documented (7b). 7a. Harmonise the .deb package naming (bug #633508) - Paul It needs to be *re-enforced to everyone* that a 1.00 release will absolutely _not_ be available until sometime in 2011. What (may) be released in time for Ubuntu 10.10 /will/ continue to evolve and receive changes, even potentially evasive ones (Greek). Currently the debugging glyphs in the PUA (giving definitive version and weight) were removed (bug #640623)--- something that was not requested, and it is likely to be preferable to restore them to aid in on-going debugging. 7b. Write+Include documentation in source/wiki/.deb - Paul, Dave, ... Blocker until done: Prepare FAQs on contributing, feedback, design rationale (collate DM blog posts), stylistic choices, licensing, future direction. My belief is that the technical risks are lower than the social/non-technical. Documentation is thus focused towards the latter. 7c. Stale font version detection - TBC In order for users to have a stable desktop environment, it may be necessary to add detection code to warn the user when they have both a packaged, and an unpackage version of font installed within the system. My memory is that a similiar approach was taken for detecting stability problems that may have been caused attributable to Automatix. 8. Harmonise the typeface family name ("Beta", bug #602870) - DM Blocked: on (1). The 'Beta' suffix will probably be removed in the same upstream spin that changes the licence over. The Ubuntu-related website have been updated (bug #620537) to request 'UbuntuBeta' or 'Ubuntu'. 9. Upload to main archive - Paul(?) 10. Main Inclusion Report - Paul 11. Feature Freeze Exception - Paul All blocked: lack of "source code" (bug #640526) and lack of licence (1). A full list of /all/ source files necessary to replicate the build needs to come from DM, and will need to be put into an agreed upstream tarball/Bzr tree format. I had not originally been taking this step into account. Probably what will happen is that we'll move the source code files around, and then ask DM to follow /that/ layout for future releases---future deliveries will consist of a tarball containing both .ttf files /and/ the respective source files. 12. CD seeding size (750kB) -Done Done: Members of the release team have stated that at present there is sufficient space available on the CD images. 13. Fix 'High' and 'Critical' bugs -DM Quality-focused work (bug fixing) has been notched back, in order to focus on (the possibility of) shipping something in Ubuntu 10.10. (If a) release happens, there should be time for a couple of bug-fix releases (eg. hinted italic slant, bug #632451). If people consider a particular visual bug *essential*, please target them to the milestone: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+milestone/0.70 14. Themes to use as UFF as User Interface default - Mark/UX/KC, later Blocked, on 'everything': This is the last decision on the journey and does not involve the Ubuntu Font Family itself. Turning the Ubuntu Font Family on once the pieces are in place (rather than just shipping it) is off the board until there is a *working package* present in and on the CD images. 15. Soothing Tea If you feel that something is mispresented or just requires further information, please seek clarification, or correct it!... Nobody should feel stressed. -- MIR+FFE: Inclusion of Ubuntu Font Family ~0.70 in Maverick (10.10) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/629622 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
