Re: RFC on MR 1368

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

I have had many similarly exhausting discussions before, so I
empathize (it is also the reason that I paused my contributions
recently.)

I would go with Werner's choices here; as the Freetype author, he is
the expert on font features and technology.

>From the MR:

> I equally object to any contribution being merged "because the author knows 
> what he's doing".

I object to reviewers blocking contributions just because they have a
strong opinion on how things should be done. In this case, Jonas has
made 0 contributions to the MF code, so I don't think his concerns
should be overriding.

If Jonas feels really strongly about how the kerning should be
handled, I invite him to teach himself the joys of Metafont and try
his hand at a follow-up MR.

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 12:01 AM Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>
> Folks,
>
>
> Jonas and I have an intense (and very exhausting) discussion where to
> add kerning data.  I want to hear more opinions whether I should go
> 'route one' (which I prefer) or 'route two' (which Jonas prefers).
>
> Please have a look at MR 1368
>
>   https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/1368
>
> and chime in.
>
>
>     Werner
>


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