Re: Test collections

Hi Roderick,

We'll happily run the tests on the MyFonts corpus, however of course we
can't contribute any of the fonts.

Could I also be added to the repo?

Thanks,
Joe
On Nov 12, 2014 11:27 PM, "Roderick Sheeter" <rsheeter@google.com> wrote:

> Fair enough. I'm leery of pushing into the primary reference repository in
> a very early state as the reference is pulled into published software and I
> would not want any of them to update to latest and pick up potentially
> unfortunate changes from the preliminary collection support code.
>
> So ... I'll look into pushing a preliminary version to a fork for people
> to play with as I definitely agree about early results being better.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello Roderick,
>>
>> Thursday, November 13, 2014, 1:23:47 AM, you wrote:
>>
>> > Definitely but I'd like it a little further along before doing that.
>>
>> If the software is mature enough for you to need test fonts then its
>> also mature enough for someone with fonts they can't share to
>> contribute results.
>>
>> Of course, retesting may be required, but that is up to Liam to
>> decide. Its better to get results early.
>>
>> >  On 12 Nov 2014 15:06, "Liam R E Quin" <liam@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:55:05 -0800
>> >  Roderick Sheeter <rsheeter@google.com> wrote:
>> >
>>  >> For verification of collection support it would be helpful to have a
>> corpus
>>  >> of test fonts. Does anyone have or know of a bunch of collection
>> fonts I
>>  >> could use, for the sole purpose of verifying they round-trip through
>> woff2
>>  >> correctly?
>> >
>> >  Alternatively, can you distribute test software that others can run?
>> >
>> >  --
>> >  Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
>> >  Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Chris Lilley, Technical Director, W3C Interaction Domain
>>
>>
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