[MPEG-OTSPEC] Acknowledging sources

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 1:52 AM Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org> wrote:

> Let’s extend that: all chapters describing tables should start with a
> table of metadata containing:
>
> * version introduced
> * version deprecated
> * version to be removed in
> * originating person or entity
> * requirement status
>

I've been talking about an MDN-equivalent for OpenType.

And yes all in for formalizing deprecation and removal timelines. I plan to
propose similar for HarfBuzz (compiler support etc).



> Simon
>
> On 15 Aug 2020, at 09:35, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:
>
> 
> On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 1:05 AM Simon Cozens <simon at simon-cozens.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 14/08/2020 23:16, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> > - You on behalf of MS demanded that LSB/RSB variations (and by
>> extension
>> > TSB/BSB variations) be encoded in the HVAR/VVAR tables because the
>> > obsolete GDI "ABC" API "needs them" and can't be bothered to get them
>> > from the outlines.
>>
>> One thing which would at least mitigate some of these problems would for
>> the spec to be honest about how ideas were originated and included. The
>> features registry at least does this, so there's precedent.
>>
>> In a truly community-owned spec this would be unnecessary, as there
>> would be an expectation that it was the consensus of multiple
>> contributors. But for a spec which is maintained by one corporate
>> entity, which claims ownership over the spec, to include contributions
>> from others without acknowledging the source of those contributions is
>> dishonest and disingenuous.
>>
>> Those of us with long memories of "embrace and extend" have some
>> sensitivity for how MS has taken the ideas of others and berated them
>> publicly before implementing them and claiming them as its own - this
>> destroys trust and dissuades future contributions.
>>
>
> More importantly to the final product: mark junk like `post` table as
> "required on Microsoft platforms" instead of "required".
>
>
>> S
>>
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