[CJKUnifonts-devel] Links in CJKUnifont project on freedesktop wiki don't work anymore

[Walter Cheuk]

FYI, something useful may be found at:

http://www.study-area.org/apt/firefly-font/

2014-11-08 12:19 GMT+08:00 Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com>:
> Someone helpful may be found here
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/cjkunifonts-devel/
>
> Also Firefly (螢火飛), the original author of the 'New Sung' font, also
> has continuous input to the font.
>
>
> 2014-11-08 11:46 GMT+08:00 Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Walter Cheuk <wwycheuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If we can't contact the original author, could we just fork the
>>> project and start a new one?
>>
>>
>> Yes. We can.
>>
>> Did anyone here download the source files/ template files (fontforge
>> sfd file) and resources before? That will be better than ttf/ttc files
>> which lose some details and save us time to recreate those reference
>> files.
>>
>> Anyway, we can still use fontforge to read ttf/ttc and export sfd file
>> again, so that won't be a big problem.
>>
>>>
>>> 2014-11-08 0:46 GMT+08:00 Cheng-Chia Tseng <pswo10680 at gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> Anyone who cares about open CJK fonts might have known that Adobe and
>>>> Google released open font project as Source Han Sans / Noto Sans CJK for
>>>> Heiti style.
>>>>
>>>> I do believe open CJK font of Mingti / Sungti style still needs attention
>>>> and work to get better. I try to learn the tutorial on project wiki and
>>>> want to get involved in this project but in the end I found that all links
>>>> on the wiki which link to canonical site did not work anymore. Source file
>>>> and template file could not be downloaded.
>>>>
>>>> Tutorial:
>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/CJKUnifonts/Resources/Tutorial/
>>>>
>>>> And I found that CJKUnifont project on freedesktop wiki did not update
>>>> since 2008/02/16. There is no further release either.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to contact the project leader, Arne, about this issue and sent
>>>> several mails to him via the address provided on the wiki since Aug 23.
>>>> However, I don't receive any response until today.
>>>>
>>>> So I would like to ask anyone who has the permission to update the wiki and
>>>> who have those latest files downloaded could help fix the content. This
>>>> might be the last method and chance we could come up with to make this
>>>> project alive again.
>>>>
>>>> If we fail, that would be another big loss besides WenQuanYi project (there
>>>> is no further releases since 2009) in the history of open CJK font, and may
>>>> FLOSS community who use CJK font will memorize the gorgeous work which
>>>> CJKUnifonts project had achieved.
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> by Cheng-Chia Tseng