Re: [fontforge-devel] Any help needed right now?

[Fred B. <cop...@ki...>]

I can see your email address and have sent you an email.

Thanks for your offer and I hope to work together soon ! :-)

COLR/CPAL is a lot of work but, as I sent you, I have a quite detailed plan on 
how to get it in, in multiple phases.

Best,
Fred Brennan

On Thursday, January 23, 2020 5:25:57 AM PST David Carter wrote:
> Dear Mr Brennan,
> 
> I've got 30 years experience of C and C++.  Last 10-15 years or so mainly
> C++ but C ever present through libraries etc.  I might be rusty on some of
> the obscure parts of C and certainly parts of stdlib,  but I could
> certainly get by.  I first learnt C in university some 31 years ago - my
> first proper project was a ray tracing algorithm with multiple shading
> routines - it was really nifty I remember - I think I've still got the code
> printout somewhere :-) After that I've worked on many C/C++ codebases as
> part of my career - a few years in comms then in finance.
> 
> Yes, I can use GDB pretty well.  Mainly used VS in the last few years, but
> started off on VAX, BSD UNIX and Linux machines so the GNU toolchain is
> still very natural for me.
> 
> No conscious experience with FreeType.  In truth I have little technical
> experience of working with fonts.  I will be learning this as a go along -
> through development and through design of my own fonts.
> 
> I've had a look at the colour font stuff and it looks like there would be a
> lot of work to add it, no?  I mean support for colour pickers and so on.
> I'm not sure it would be the best thing for me to work on to begin with but
> I'm happy to try, if you are desperate!  Please be aware that due to other
> commitments and so forth (see my original email) my input is possibly going
> to be a little sporadic at least for the foreseeable.  I was thinking it
> might be better for me to operate in lone wolf mode for the first few
> months to get up to speed on the codebase and contribution mechanism.
> 
> If you want please contact me off list - can you see my e-mail address on
> my postings here?
> 
> Best wishes,
> David.