π Who are we?
Design Sofware is a Special Interest Group aimed to improves latest free and open tools for designers especially Design Team.
π Contributing roles in the Design Software SIG
π Mission
- Creating high quality packages of design tools featuring graphics, web, arts and some video editings.
- Documenting the available tools, including wiki documentation and comps.xml
- Promote the Design Suite
- Actively review each other's design-related packages to shorten the time it takes to get them approved and imported into Fedora Package Collection
- Help each other fix bugs that have been filed against design packages
- Alerting each other about orphaned and soon-to-be orphaned design software packages so that we can prevent their removal
π Design News websites
π Documentation
π Design Suite
Design Suite is a Fedora Spin based on Gnome Shell showcasing the design-related tools used by Design Team in addition of audio and video editing. More information is located on Fedora Spin website.
π Process
Design Software SIG has three channels for communication:
- The mailing list design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org,
- The current wiki page for suggesting design software, the need of reviewing packages or joining the SIG,
- the IRC channel located on #fedora-design@irc.freenode.net for designers and #fedora-devel@irc.freenode.org for packagers.
π Contribution
π Active Contributors
π Packages in Fedora repository
π Packages in Design Suite
π Packages under review
Lists of packaged submitted for review. A good place to learn about the procedure and the common practice. If the package is accepted for inclusion in Fedora repository, add design-sw in InitialCC while submitting a SCM Admin request. please move it to accepted packages, else move it to refused packages and list the reason of refusal.
- Name - Description - rhbug#
knotter
- A free and open source customizable interlace designer - 996209birdfont
- An editor for creating outline vector graphics and exporting fonts - 978177fntsample
- A program for making font samples that show Unicode coverage of the font - 999998
π Recently added packages
π Orphaned packages needing maintainers
π Rejected Packages
π Development
This section tracks the latest upstream development packaged in individual Fedora People repository. Using them wil help exposing bug, and exploring new features without disturbing the main Fedora repositories. In addition, the resulting source RPM will teach upstream about the good practice of packaging. To use these repository for testing purpose:
- access to these links below,
- put the repo file in into /etc/yum.repos.d/
- execute the update using either Software Update or input the command in terminal
sudo yum update
.