On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Dave Crossland <
dave-yX7OcqChgmE@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Everyone!
>
> Fabricatoz Jon Philips and Christopher Adams and Ricard Lafuente and
> Ana Carvalho of Manufactura Independente have been working hard this
> last month on Open Font Library and the 0.3 blueprint is going to be
> marked as 'RELEASED' today!
>
> The big feature is the "Member Roles" - if you would like to help keep
> the font collection libre licensed, high quality, and do other
> 'librarian' tasks, please ask on this list and Christopher Adams will
> set your profile on the site to 'librarian' status

You will then
> see the new management interface that allows you to flag fonts for
> review, and so on. I hope Christopher can follow up on this thread
> with more!

>
> Work is starting now on 0.4 with 4 goals in mind:
>
> 1. Release the design work that Ricard and Ana at MI have done and
> blogged about at
http://blog.manufacturaindependente.org/ across the
> whole site - be sure to check this blog!
>
> 2. Release the translation system with the new design
>
> 3. Release the notifications system (email, RSS, tweet/dent, etc)
>
> 4. Release the new mediawiki Guidebook design and cleaned up content
>
> Fabricatoz and Manufactura Independente will be working closely on all
> 4 outcomes!
>
> If you want to report bugs with 0.3, please file them against 0.4 at
>
https://launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+milestone/0.4 over the next few
> days.
>
> Finally,
>
> Here is the detailed changelog for 0.3, from
>
https://launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+milestone/0.3
>
> New Features:
>
> * Font flagging (featured, needs review, etc.)
> * Basic Metrics
> * Font Updating
> * ReCAPTCHA
> * Custom font samples
> * Member settings page
> * Recent contributors list
> * Member roles
> * Anonymous uploads (Librarians only)
>
> Important Bug Fixes:
>
> * Search link is accessible on all pages
> * Removed username duplications
> * Added metadata in header
> * Accept left-to-right font names
> * Display distinct meta-data for all fonts
> * Bigger download button
> * Simplified orthography list
>
> --
> Cheers
> Dave
>