[Openfontlibrary] Roadmap, Informal Policies, and Digging in

[Jon Phillips]

First of all, this flood we have had on this project of ideas and
developers is awesome! It has confirmed what I though, that there is a
ton of energy out there for free and open fonts, but there hasn't been a
good system nor clear place for energy to be placed. Thus, I'm very
interested in channeling this new energy and pushing this new old idea a
long.

I'm going to say this a lot, but everyone, please add to the roadmap and
future plans section on the wiki: 

http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap

Also, please file bugs and feature requests whenever you think up an
idea and want to see it implemented. This will only help in tracking
what to do and where we should be spending our energy. It is also good
for new people. Here is our task tracker for bugs and feature requests: 

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?product=openfontlibrary

We really need to concretize tasks and get people hacking to get this
project on the road. Right now myself and RyanLerch are taking on a
bunch of tasks, so every way that people can help by picking up a shovel
and digging, will be appreciated. Also, you will be showered with
rewards, congratulations, and tons of smiley faces and love from
everyone. And, this will only grow if we can get good fonts all across
the free and open desktop :)

I will also say that the direction of the project is really about who
picks up a shovel, as I think it is best to adopt a couple of informal
Inkscape-style policies to keep our development on point:

* "Patch first, discuss later" - Yes, we should reward the contributors
and discuss things after something has been applied (if controversial,
etc). ccHost's code is out there in the public:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/cchost , so please help by implementing
plugins to help the project along.

* "1 patch, then SVN access" - Yes, that's right, if you provide a good
patch for this project and/or ccHost, we will give you access to do
direct SVN commits to accelerate your ideas


Ok, other than that, its great that we are having all these discussions,
but I encourage everyone when emailing this list to see how we can make
discrete features, requests, and ideas that we can save on our tracker
or wiki, and more importantly, get people hacking on this project so we
can start doing releases and making things better :)

Jon


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