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A page on Fedora Fonts

Putting it all together.

The following is a quick summary to help newcomers undertand the Fonts SIG workflow.


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Who are they?
Requester and Packager can be the same person. Reviewer must be different from the Packager.


A font package lifecycle
Phase Who Actions Requirements
Emergence Requester
  • finds a nice font to package in Fedora,
  • checks its licensing is acceptable, basically that:
    • redistribution, including commercial is allowed, and
    • modification, including of existing glyphs is allowed too
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Don't stop there
This is a simplistic summary, do read our legal page before proposing new fonts.
  • fills a packaging request in the wiki using the current template
    • a complete and accurate request will increase packaging and adoption potential
  • notifies the SIG mailing list of the new packaging request (optional but recommended)
Conception Packager
  • picks up a packaging request in the wishlist,
  • corrects and completes the information the requester provided
    • using the Packager notes in the template for guidance
  • packages the fonts:
  • uploads the result somewhere
  • requests a review
  • notifies the SIG mailing list of the new review request (optional but recommended).
  • the full joining the fonts SIG list,
  • if the packager is not a cvsextras member yet, the way his membership request will be acted on depends on the quality of the new package he proposes.


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Font packages are normal packages
Most packaging steps are detailed on the general new fedora packager page.
Reviewer
  • reviews the package
  • makes the requester fix eventual problems
  • approves the package
Birth Packager
  • publishes his package in the fedora-devel branch, then in other branches (stable release, EPEL branch, etc)
  • completes the distribution comps files
  • adds the koji and pkgdb references to the original wiki packaging request
  • changes its category to Category:Packaged fonts
  • notifies the SIG mailing list of the new package (optional but recommended)
Requester
  • thanks the packager publicly. Small things count too.
Life Packager
  • monitors new upstream releases, new fedora bugs,
  • updates his package in fedora-devel accordingly,
  • pushes the updates to other Fedora branches when they're worth it
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Be conservative
Users to not like continuous updates for small changes. Update in fedora-devel (rawhide) early and often. Think twice before pushing changes to other branches.
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Don't leave now
Please avoid fire and forget packaging.
Users
  • a bugzilla account
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Bugzilla is required
Packagers are not psychic, they don't monitor the whole web for problems, if you want them to address yours, please use our bugzilla.
Death Fedora QA A change in Fedora policies or a problem missed earlier may cause a font package to be retired.


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Fonts in Fedora
The Fonts SIG takes loving care of Fedora fonts. Please join this special interest group if you are interested in creating, improving, packaging, or just suggesting a font. Any help will be appreciated.