[CREATE] [opentype] goals and repos

[Felipe Sanches]

I'm just a bit unconfortable with the name "opensource-opentype". Why not
LibreType ? ;-)

Also, tell us more about your effort. I was not present at LGM this year,
so I am not sure I undertand it.

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 2:59 PM, Felipe Sanches <juca at members.fsf.org>
wrote:

> 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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