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On 23 April 2013 11:58, Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:56:49 +0800 |
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> Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > I suppose you talked with Michal about this and couldn't reach an |
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> > > agreement, like him joining the fonts herd, or at least the mail alias |
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> > > to monitor ft/fc bugs. |
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> > > |
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> > > If you want I can join the fonts herd also, I already have a foot in |
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> > > there for some small packages used within texlive anyway. |
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> > > |
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> > We could certainly use a hand in fonts herd. Most members have |
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> > left or are on extended non-active status. It's just lu_zero (and I am |
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> > not sure how active he is wrt fonts packages, but it certainly doesn't |
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> > cover freetype and fontconfig) and me. |
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> As the previous maintainer of these packages, I think they should be |
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> maintained |
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> by the x11 team as well as fonts. Fonts has been dead for a while and |
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> freetype |
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> at least needs a dedicated maintainer. |
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Fonts herd isn't dead, but most of the member have dispersed. Matsuu and |
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pva are |
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inactive, and lu_zero is busy with other things it seems. So that leaves |
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me. I've |
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always had an interest in fonts, so I'm happy to do this, but I don't have |
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the time |
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to properly maintain all packages belonging to the herd. So help is more |
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than |
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welcome. |
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> No offense to lu_zero, but he has a habit of popping in, applying some |
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> non-upstreamed patch to a critical project, and then disappearing again. |
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> On the other hand, you applied infinality, so you're not on my favorite |
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> people |
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> list either. :P |
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We'll need to agree to disagree then. Anyway, no one was taking care of |
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freetype |
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and fontconfig at the time I picked up maintenance. So there you have it. |
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I would be happy to have someone join the fonts team and co-maintain |
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freetype and fontconfig. I just want to make sure infinality will remain |
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available to our users. |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |
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