linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC RESEND 0/4] Documentation: Web fonts for kernel documentation

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Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2023 11:45:50 -0500
From:   David Vernet <void@...ifault.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Documentation <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@...il.com>,
        Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@...gle.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>, James Seo <james@...iv.tech>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC RESEND 0/4] Documentation: Web fonts for kernel
 documentation

On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 10:35:47AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:

Hello Bagas,

[...]

> > The solution
> > ============
> >
> > Uniform the font choices by leveraging web fonts. Most of people reading
> > the kernel docs should already have modern browser that supports this
> > feature (e.g. Chrome/Chromium and Firefox). The fonts are downloaded
> > automatically when loading the page, but only if the reader don't
> > already have ones installed locally. Subsequent docs page loading will
> > use the browser cache to retrieve the fonts. If for some reasons the
> > fonts fail to load, the browser will fall back to fallback fonts
> > commonly seen on other sites.
> 
> So my immediate response to this is pretty uniformly negative.
> 
> - If you don't like serif, tweaking conf.py is easy enough without
>   pushing it on everybody else.
> 
> - I'm not thrilled about adding a bunch of binary font data to the
>   kernel, and suspect a lot of people would not feel that the bloat is
>   worth it.
> 
> - The licensing of the fonts is not fully free.

+1 to all of Jon's points. We already have to deal with folks arguing
against .rst and pushing for us to just use plaintext for everything. I
suspect their reaction to this would be, to put it politely, even less
restrained.

Thanks,
David