On 23 November 2017 at 13:55, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> wrote:
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I think we should consider getting rid of this requirement. Updating
wiki pages is quite a bit of work, and we have better mechanisms to
advertise stuff to users that didn't exist a few years ago. Apart from
the manual effort, the problem with wiki pages is that they tend to
get out of date pretty quickly enough to be out-of-date to often to be
really trustworthy. Instead, I think it'd be better to spend the
effort on making gnome software support fonts even better and to improve
the appdata files for fonts to make them "shine" in gnome-software.
This would be
a) less effort (a few minutes to create an appdata file when initially
packaging the font, very little ongoing effort, metadata is automatically
updated on package updates),
b) actually more useful for users (you get a live list, click "install"
on the font you like, instead of going from a wiki page to the command
line).
There are still some dinosaurs who don't use GNOME.
Maybe some mechanisms that aren't dependent on that would be good?