[Pkg-fonts-devel] try sponsoring near pkg-fonts groyup in alioth

[Luis Matos]

Sex, 2006-05-19 às 22:24 -0500, Christian Perrier escreveu:
> Quoting Luis Matos (gass at otiliamatos.ath.cx):
> > Qui, 2006-05-18 às 18:06 -0500, Christian Perrier escreveu:
> > > Quoting Luis Matos (gass at otiliamatos.ath.cx):
> > > > sending email to the pkg-fonts-devel list in alioth, to alert them to
> > > > these fonts.
> > > > 
> > > > Maybe they help to package them.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Well, why not.
> > > 
> > > However, it's indeed up to the package maintainer to decide this. We
> > > cannot enforce anything...
> > > 
> > > 
> > true ... true, i did not said anything ... just pointed out a solution
>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Hmm, not exactly. You did an interesting suggestion but, definitely
> this is up to the package maintainer to decide this. I'm currently
> very careful about the font package team (which still has to organize
> itself but I can't do everything people...:-))) not appearing has
> stealing all activities about font work.
> 
> 
sorry if it seems that way. I think that not all, but most of the fonts
should be under some group's attention (because there are many fonts
lost out there and is hard to catch them in debian's repository). I am
not trying to achieve that, but ( i sank in this bug, because the
maintainer don't want any help) i saw that the bug was 4 months old, and
i know that in one group is easily to divide work, and more work can  be
done that one person, so, i indicate the fonts group, not only for
sponsorship, but also for some help on packaging because maybe he did
not have the time ( of course i don't know if the group has time or
not).

So, i just mailed that bug, like others, as concerned debian user, for
long time bugs (or ITP).

I think fonts are not that hard to package (i think... maybe i am
mistaken) and 4 month to package them is because, maybe, the bug
submitter has no time, and i think any fonts are welcome to debian, so,
i mailed pkg-fonts group.

i reported this bug, as i reported 353006[1], as concerned user and i
think other users would be pleased if those bugs were corrected.
That bug had no feedback, like other bug in roxen4 ,305536 [2], by the
same maintainer.

Maybe i am being a "little" bit pain in the ass, but ... ok, i'll stop.

I don't think you steal any font work, but could be co-maintainer or
help some new font or font packages to come into debian. Users would be
pleased.

I know also that debian has lots of packages, but it's because of it
that use debian. It's hard to manage ... ok, but for the user it's
great.


Anyway, thank  you all for contributing for debian. I like the work and
ideas you (people from pkg-fonts and daniel) brint into debian.


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=353006
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=305536

best regards

-- 
Luis Matos <gass at otiliamatos.ath.cx>