Can you help with making fonts awesome in Fedora 21?

[Rajeesh K Nambiar]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 11:22 AM, pravin.d.s at gmail.com
<pravin.d.s at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 16 October 2014 15:14, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.

Added AppStream data upstream for fonts I maintain and built updates
for f21 and master branches.

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>> I've started a shared spreadsheet here:
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>> 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.
>>

Updated the tracking sheet.

>> It's really easy to add content for fonts. This is an example with
>> multiple subpackages:
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>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/silkscreen-fonts.git/commit/?id=32acdd5aa900ad732c023a73f7cd269a136f0957
>> and fonts with only one package are even easier, e.g.
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>> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/oflb-brett-fonts.git/commit/?id=72ff3099f733949f9526221b47a63eff9b9b969d
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> Thanks for templates :)
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> 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.

Indeed, it would be good to know how to test this.

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