Can you help with making fonts awesome in Fedora 21?

pravin.d.s at gmail.com pravin.d.s at gmail.com
Fri Oct 17 09:22:29 UTC 2014


On 16 October 2014 15:14, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:

> If you maintain a font in Fedora, or are a provenpackager, I could
> really need your help this weekend. Basically, we want to implement
> AppStream metadata[1] for all the fonts we want to show in the
> software center. I've already made a good start, and now other people
> are starting to help as well, so I'm pretty sure we can get the
> majority finished for next week when we can submit a mega-update of
> updated fonts.
>
> I've started a shared spreadsheet here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1o2sPWF7PEe6BKnBeZUI23m51nfFHUMx61IRsdNDozig/edit#gid=0
> with what needs doing -- if you can help, please put your FAS name in
> the second column and get building. If any fonts are missing that you
> think belong in the software center please feel free to add them.
>
> It's really easy to add content for fonts. This is an example with
> multiple subpackages:
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/silkscreen-fonts.git/commit/?id=32acdd5aa900ad732c023a73f7cd269a136f0957
> and fonts with only one package are even easier, e.g.
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/oflb-brett-fonts.git/commit/?id=72ff3099f733949f9526221b47a63eff9b9b969d
>

Thanks for templates :)

Will be very helpful if you can add "how to test" information as well. i.e.
after local install package will appear in gnome-software something in bit
detail.

Regards,
Pravin Satpute
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