Re: Fedora-fonts-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 14

[Stephen Carter]

>  Our wishlist stood at 56 entries for last report. It has now reached
> the
>  76 entries watermark. The current fonts packagers are clearly unable to
>  cope with Fedora demands, fresh blood is needed before it moves into
>  3-digits land. 
Well then in that case, you may be happy to hear that you have a new
fonts packager: me. ^.^

My name is Stephen, and I'm a student in the LUX program at Seneca
College in Toronto Canada, studying Linux. For a class project, I will
be packaging up as many fonts as I can, and (hopefully) getting them
into Fedora. I'm a little late in getting into contact with the
community, but hey, better late than never! To start off, I've already
got one font packaged up and ready for review (Epigrafica - I had a
couple others, but I see they're no longer on the wishlist), but I'm not
quite sure where to go from here. I'd like to get these started into the
review process, but I've never done that before so... yeah, what do I do
next?

I'm mostly clear on the technical details of making the packages, but
I'm unfamiliar with the whole process for getting the package approved
and whatnot. If someone could point me in the next direction, that would
be great!

Also, I'm on IRC a lot, is there an IRC channel where I could ask
questions specifically related to fonts-packaging?


You can reach me at <scarter4 AT learn DOT senecac DOT on DOT ca> or,
reply to this address.

Stephen

Fedora-fonts-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 14

[Sven Lankes]

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:04:39AM -0500, Stephen Carter wrote:

>  Well then in that case, you may be happy to hear that you have a new
>  fonts packager: me. ^.^ 
Welcome

>  My name is Stephen, and I'm a student in the LUX program at
> Seneca
>  College in Toronto Canada, studying Linux. For a class project, I will
>  be packaging up as many fonts as I can, and (hopefully) getting them
>  into Fedora. I'm a little late in getting into contact with the
>  community, but hey, better late than never! To start off, I've already
>  got one font packaged up and ready for review (Epigrafica - I had a
>  couple others, but I see they're no longer on the wishlist), but I'm not
>  quite sure where to go from here. I'd like to get these started into the
>  review process, but I've never done that before so... yeah, what do I do
>  next? 
You need to create a fas-account, apply for the packager-group and
create a package review request in bugzilla that includes the
information that you need to be sponsored.

A potential sponsor will probably want to see a litte more work done by
you that shows that you've understood the fedora packaging principles -
so doing a couple of 'pre-reviews' of packages (font or not) is probably
a good idea.

There are lots of details on how to join/help on the wiki - start here:

http://fedoraproject.org/join-fedora

>  Also, I'm on IRC a lot, is there an IRC channel where I could
> ask
>  questions specifically related to fonts-packaging? 
##fonts
#fedora-devel

both on the freenode irc-network.

-- 
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Fedora-fonts-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 14

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Lun 26 janvier 2009 16:04, Stephen Carter a écrit :
> > Our wishlist stood at 56 entries for last report. It has now reached
> > the
> > 76 entries watermark. The current fonts packagers are clearly unable
> > to
> > cope with Fedora demands, fresh blood is needed before it moves into
> > 3-digits land. 
Hi Stephen,

>  Well then in that case, you may be happy to hear that you have a new
>  fonts packager: me. ^.^ 
/me cheers

>  My name is Stephen, and I'm a student in the LUX program at
> Seneca
>  College in Toronto Canada, studying Linux. For a class project, I will
>  be packaging up as many fonts as I can, and (hopefully) getting them
>  into Fedora. 
It will be very good to have someone that packages enough fonts to
identify common problems and suggest ways to help font upstreams
produce something easily packaged.

>  I'm mostly clear on the technical details of making the packages,
> but
>  I'm unfamiliar with the whole process for getting the package approved
>  and whatnot. If someone could point me in the next direction, that
>  would be great! 
The whole organisational part of getting a font in Fedora is described
here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Font_package_lifecycle

>  Also, I'm on IRC a lot, is there an IRC channel where I could
> ask
>  questions specifically related to fonts-packaging? 
The canonical channel dedicated to FLOSS fonts on IRC is ##fonts on
irc.freenode.net (multi-distro). You can also ask general fedora
packaging questions on #fedora-devel.

We have packagers on many different timezones, so depending on the
hour there may be no one awake, or people just rising, or people
finishing their night. Don't give up if you have no answer in the same
hour :p

PS: You should also take the time to read
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_(FAQ)

and skim the rest of the Fonts SIG wiki

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

Fedora-fonts-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 14

[Stephen Carter]

Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  Le Lun 26 janvier 2009 16:04, Stephen Carter a écrit :
> >> Our wishlist stood at 56 entries for last report. It has now reached
> >> the
> >> 76 entries watermark. The current fonts packagers are clearly unable
> >> to
> >> cope with Fedora demands, fresh blood is needed before it moves into
> >> 3-digits land.
>  
>  Hi Stephen,
>  
> > Well then in that case, you may be happy to hear that you have a new
> > fonts packager: me. ^.^
>  
>  /me cheers
>  
> > My name is Stephen, and I'm a student in the LUX program at Seneca
> > College in Toronto Canada, studying Linux. For a class project, I will
> > be packaging up as many fonts as I can, and (hopefully) getting them
> > into Fedora.
>  
>  It will be very good to have someone that packages enough fonts to
>  identify common problems and suggest ways to help font upstreams
>  produce something easily packaged.
>  
> > I'm mostly clear on the technical details of making the packages, but
> > I'm unfamiliar with the whole process for getting the package approved
> > and whatnot. If someone could point me in the next direction, that
> > would be great!
>  
>  The whole organisational part of getting a font in Fedora is described
>  here:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Font_package_lifecycle
>  
> > Also, I'm on IRC a lot, is there an IRC channel where I could ask
> > questions specifically related to fonts-packaging?
>  
>  The canonical channel dedicated to FLOSS fonts on IRC is ##fonts on
>  irc.freenode.net (multi-distro). You can also ask general fedora
>  packaging questions on #fedora-devel.
>  
>  We have packagers on many different timezones, so depending on the
>  hour there may be no one awake, or people just rising, or people
>  finishing their night. Don't give up if you have no answer in the same
>  hour :p
>  
>  PS: You should also take the time to read
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shipping_fonts_in_Fedora_(FAQ)
>  
>  and skim the rest of the Fonts SIG wiki
>   
Thanks for the quick response, all those links do answer quite a few
questions, but I have one more: What should I do with fonts on the
wishlist that I am working on, or planning on working on? Do I just edit
the wiki and remove them from the wishlist, move them to a different
page, or what? Basically, what I want to know is, how do I let people
know "Hey I'm working on this font!" So that someone else doesn't
duplicate my work.

Stephen

Fedora-fonts-list Digest, Vol 16, Issue 14

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 26 janvier 2009 à 11:50 -0500, Stephen Carter a écrit :

>  Thanks for the quick response, all those links do answer quite a few
>  questions, but I have one more: What should I do with fonts on the
>  wishlist that I am working on, or planning on working on? Do I just edit
>  the wiki and remove them from the wishlist, move them to a different
>  page, or what? Basically, what I want to know is, how do I let people
>  know "Hey I'm working on this font!" So that someone else doesn't
>  duplicate my work. 
If you follow the procedure correctly the font will be removed from the
wishlist at the time you submit your review request. I don't think it
would be very smart to remove entries which have not even reached the
review stage: people would remove them, move along before finishing up,
and the work on the wishlist entry would be lost.

You can however announce what you intend to work on this mailing list.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot