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Message-ID: <20231102164550.GA3640@maniforge>
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>,
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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
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