[Bug 467507] New: Review Request: Rufscript-fonts - Rufscripts is a decorative handwriting based font

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Summary: Review Request: Rufscript-fonts - Rufscripts is a decorative handwriting based font

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Summary: Review Request: Rufscript-fonts - Rufscripts is a
                    decorative handwriting based font
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: [e-mail]
        ReportedBy: [e-mail]
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                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail]
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora

Spec URL: http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/packages/rufscript-fonts.spec
SRPM URL:
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/packages/rufscript-fonts-0.1-1.fc10.src.rpm

Description:

Rufscripts is a handwriting based font suitable for comic scripts and
small labels. It is created using completely free and open source tools.

Notes:

Other than a warning about missing documentation (we don't have any), rpmlint
is clean but do check the conf file and other details for the review.

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--- Comment #1 from Kushal Das   2008-10-18 14:02:52 EDT ---
Automated result from review-o-matic

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=887703

rufscript-fonts.noarch: W: no-documentation
2 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 1 warnings.

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--- Comment #2 from Nicolas Mailhot   2008-10-26 07:28:20 EDT ---
1. Since Minto Joseph and you are both packaging Hiran's fonts, you should get
together and interact with Hiran collectively (see bug #457709).

2. It's not a good idea to keep the versioning in the TTF filename, some apps
refer fonts by filename and will get cross with you if it changes every version

3. You should discuss with Minto if you want to adopt a common prefix for your
font packages names (for  example hiranv-rufscript-fonts and
perizia-rufscript-fonts). We've more or less started to do it for big foundries
(gfs, sil) and some individual font authors (thibault), it's probably better to
generalise the convention to have consistent naming
(please subscribe to the fonts SIG list if you haven't done so yet to get
informed of packaging convention evolutions)

4. you can drop the -f in the fc-cache invocation for releases ≥ Fedora 9
→ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FontsSpecTemplate

5. Some people want all Fedora-added source files in a package to be prefixed
with the package name. You don't follow this convention for your fontconfig
file. Please take inspiration from the general packaging guidelines or Minto's
package to fix it.
→ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/FontsSpecTemplate
→ bug #457709

6. 69 is a bit low, for a latin font like rufscript something between 62 and 64
would be fine
→ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Simple_priority_list...

7. Please have upstream publish rufscript in a proper versioned archive with a
detached license file you can add in %doc

8. Please reformat your xml files with xmllint --format before submission so
they are nicely indented

9. I would have declared rufscript as a cursive font, not a sans-serif one

10. Please add a "Generic name" rule in addition to the "Registering a font in
default families" rule
→ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Generic_names
 This rule is used by fontconfig to complete your font with glyphs from other
fonts when it encounters a codepoint your font is missing
→
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fontconfig_packaging_tips#Registering_a_font_i...
  This rule is used by fontconfig to identify what fonts to use when an
application requests a "cursive" font.

11. When you've written fontconfig rules you're happy with it's always a good
idea to send them upstream to be included in the font next releases (in the
versionned archive you're supposed to request)

Despite the long todo list your spec is in good shape overall and it should not
take much to get it in a state that can be approved.

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--- Comment #3 from Nicolas Mailhot   2008-11-17 04:53:03 EDT ---
Ping?

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--- Comment #4 from Nicolas Mailhot   2008-12-21 16:43:57 EDT ---
[This is a simplified version of the message sent to every package maintainer
that ships TTF/OTF/Type1 fonts in Fedora.]

Our font packaging guidelines have now changed. New font package submissions
must now be adapted to the new templates available in the fontpackages-devel
package:
 – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/fontpackages
 – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Simple_fonts_spec_template
 – http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fonts_spec_template_for_multiple_fonts

It is preferred to create a font package or subpackage per font family, though
it is not currently a hard guidelines requirement.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Font_package_splitting_rules_(...)
has been submitted for FPC and FESCO approval today.

The new templates should make the creation of font packages easy and safe.

The following packages have already been converted by their packager in
fedora-devel and can serve as examples:
❄ abyssinica-fonts
❄ andika-fonts
❄ apanov-heuristica-fonts
❄ bitstream-vera-fonts
❄ charis-fonts
❄ dejavu-fonts
❄ ecolier-court-fonts
❄ edrip-fonts
❄ gfs-ambrosia-fonts
❄ gfs-artemisia-fonts
❄ gfs-baskerville-fonts
❄ gfs-bodoni-classic-fonts
❄ gfs-bodoni-fonts
❄ gfs-complutum-fonts
❄ gfs-didot-classic-fonts
❄ gfs-didot-fonts
❄ gfs-eustace-fonts
❄ gfs-fleischman-fonts
❄ gfs-garaldus-fonts
❄ gfs-gazis-fonts
❄ gfs-jackson-fonts
❄ gfs-neohellenic-fonts
❄ gfs-nicefore-fonts
❄ gfs-olga-fonts
❄ gfs-porson-fonts
❄ gfs-solomos-fonts
❄ gfs-theokritos-fonts
❄ nafees-web-naskh-fonts
❄ stix-fonts
❄ yanone-kaffeesatz-fonts

The new spec templates have been designed to be easy to update to from the
previous guidelines, and to remove complexity from font packages. To help new
package creation the fontpackages-devel package has been made available in
Fedora 9 and 10.

If you have any remaining questions about the new guidelines please ask them
on:
fedora-fonts-list at redhat.com

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--- Comment #5 from Nicolas Mailhot   2009-09-14 00:45:56 EDT ---
Hiran is promising a new release and an new website in October.

Meanwhile on the packaging side since he created multiple fonts it would be
nice to use a common prefix on the packages (similar to the apanov- prefix we
use in packaging Andrey Panov's fonts) to mark they have the same origin (as
required by guidelines)

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--- Comment #6 from Jared Smith  2010-09-19 08:00:59 EDT ---
I've created a new .spec and SRPM for this font, as I was talking with Mairin
Duffy today and she showed me this font.

SPEC URL:
http://jsmith.fedorapeople.org/Packaging/Fonts/rufscript/hiran-rufscript.spe...

SRPM URL:
http://jsmith.fedorapeople.org/Packaging/Fonts/rufscript/hiran-rufscript-fon...

I made a couple of assumptions on this font -- please correct me if these
assumptions are wrong:

1) The version in the filename is "010", but I couldn't tell if this means
"0.1" or "0.10" or "0.100".  I used fontforge to look at the font metadata, and
it said the version was "0.100", so I'm using that for the version number.

2) Comment 5 mentioned a font packaging prefix -- I've used the prefix of
"hiran" in this package.

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--- Comment #7 from Paul Flo Williams  2011-05-08 11:38:02 EDT ---
Is Rahul with you taking over this package? (The passage of time suggests yes,
but you never know.)

1. The spec name must be the same as the package name.

2. The license in the source file is GPLv3+ with exceptions

3. The SFD contains the line "Version: 0.1.0" and this is consistent with
Hiran's other font under review at the moment, Perizia, but version control of
fonts is notoriously bad so 0.100, pulled from the name table, is OK.

4. The fontconfig is very wrong, as you've said that the font "Sans" is the
same as the font "Rufscript". Please use the basic fontconfig template and
declare this as a cursive font.

5. From Nicolas's previous comment #2, points 6 and 7 still apply.

Other than those, this is a simple package, and almost ready for approval.

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--- Comment #8 from Paul Flo Williams  2011-06-08 13:40:56 EDT ---
Jared, are you still interested in this?

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--- Comment #9 from Jared Smith  2011-06-08 15:32:57 EDT ---
Yes, I'll fix it up over the next day or so.