[CREATE] [opentype] goals and repos

[Felipe Sanches]

https://github.com/felipesanches/

happy hacking! :-D

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Nathan Willis <nwillis at glyphography.com>
wrote:

> For those who are interested in following the progress of our
> opensource-opentype effort, I went ahead and created a GitHub
> "organization" at https://github.com/opensource-opentype
>
> GitHub orgs are basically the same as 'corporate' accounts (but they're
> free for FOSS projects).  Meaning they have a membership and the members
> can create multiple repositories underneath the org's hierarchy.
>
> The next question I thought about was what repos to create.  My thinking
> is that, at the "end" of the process, we want to have several things:
> - UI / UX best-practices and guides
> - Some technical docs to assist implementers (current and future) with the
> non-UI portions of the stack. Perhaps sample code, perhaps just pointing
> people to the right code elsewhere
> - Some reference documentation that records our thoughts and processes,
> particularly things like how we interpret the OpenType feature descriptions
> (which was the subject of a lot of talk at the LGM workshop)
>
> I know there are grey areas and overlaps in that set, but it's a rough
> sketch.  I think those are, at least, three sides of the equation that may
> be making progress on separate fronts.  E.g., Peter's notes about UX
> research are not *part of* a guide to how HarfBuzz and Pango provide hooks
> to get at font features.  Perhaps, then, that's a good guide for setting up
> repos in the present.
>
> So my idea would be to, for now, start three repositories: UI, feature
> reference, and feature access code.
>
> Does that breakdown sound reasonable?  What am I forgetting?
>
> Thanks,
> Nate
> PS - also, please tell me (or Dave or Behdad, currently) your GitHub
> username if you want to be added to the org.  It's no problem.
> --
> nathan.p.willis
> nwillis at glyphography.com <http://identi.ca/n8>
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