[OpenFontLibrary] Font upload process

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Sounds great!
And I love the concept of the Fontaine tool.


Op 21 mrt 2009, om 16:07 heeft Dave Crossland het volgende geschreven:

> Hi,
>
> Ed is cooking on the upload process for OFLBv2, and below I rewrite
> his email to me to explain some stuff publically :-) So this is mostly
> Ed's words, which I've wrapped in quotes.
>
> We are planning to force every upload to be a ZIP file, and thus, as
> Ed Trager put it, "enforce a set of quality standards, at least at the
> level of packaging, documentation, and licensing."
>
> "By enforcing this level of professionalism, we naturally encourage a
> similar level of professionalism at the typographic level too.  And of
> course we expect that when fontaine's report shows "missing glyphs"
> that this will encourage the font designers to go back and fill in the
> missing stuff."
>
> Also, "if on the other hand the user submits only a single TTF or OTF
> file (i.e., without the "proper" packaging as a ZIP archive with
> FONTLOG and all the other requirements), then fontaine will run
> against the uploaded file and display the report to the user. But the
> file will NOT be saved into OFLB! Instead, the user will get to see
> the preliminary fontaine report and instructions on how to properly
> package their work as a ZIP archive."
>
> Comments welcome :-)
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Dave