Lobster: add commit hash to METADATA.pb

- Repo: impallari/The-Lobster-Font
- Commit: 0796aa8 (regenerated fonts, last commit before PR #1296 merge)
- Config: override config.yaml in google/fonts (already exists)
- Status: complete
- Confidence: HIGH

diff --git a/ofl/lobster/METADATA.pb b/ofl/lobster/METADATA.pb
index 5fdc307ae0bd99ec30c68686bb3d0c557f91e68c..d469fc8ee5bc324f9eb34a724fb882b023d224d3 100644 (file)
--- a/ofl/lobster/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/lobster/METADATA.pb
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ subsets: "menu"
 subsets: "vietnamese"
 source {
   repository_url: "https://github.com/impallari/The-Lobster-Font"
+  commit: "0796aa8aa42f6cbc89fa61be4a2a12fdcd2b8998"
 }
 stroke: "SANS_SERIF"
 classifications: "DISPLAY"

diff --git a/ofl/lobster/upstream_info.md b/ofl/lobster/upstream_info.md
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..f2043f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ofl/lobster/upstream_info.md
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+# Lobster — Source Investigation
+
+**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
+**Date**: 2026-03-03
+**Status**: complete
+
+## METADATA.pb Source Block (current)
+
+The current source block in `ofl/lobster/METADATA.pb` contains only the repository URL, with no commit hash or config_yaml reference:
+
+```
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/impallari/The-Lobster-Font"
+}
+```
+
+An override `config.yaml` file already exists in the google/fonts family directory (`ofl/lobster/config.yaml`), added in commit `5ddf312` ("Add config_yaml enrichment for 82 font families", 2026-02-20).
+
+## Repository Analysis
+
+**Upstream repo**: https://github.com/impallari/The-Lobster-Font (verified accessible, HTTP 200)
+**License**: OFL
+**Designer**: Pablo Impallari (Impallari Type)
+
+The upstream repository at `impallari/The-Lobster-Font` is the original source. It has a complex fork chain:
+
+1. **impallari/The-Lobster-Font** — original upstream by Pablo Impallari
+2. **ThomasJockin/The-Lobster-Font** — fork of impallari
+3. **cyrealtype/The-Lobster-Font** — fork of ThomasJockin (Alexei Vanyashin's work)
+4. **googlefonts/lobster** — fork of impallari (renamed from "The-Lobster-Font" to "lobster")
+
+The v2.100 update was developed by Alexei Vanyashin (alexeiva) on the cyrealtype fork and merged to the googlefonts fork on 2017-10-31. The same changes were later merged into the impallari/The-Lobster-Font master branch via PR #11 on 2023-05-03 (a no-diff fast-forward merge, since both branches contained identical content).
+
+**Repository structure** (at commit `0796aa8`):
+```
+sources/
+  Lobster.glyphs          (Glyphs format source)
+fonts/
+  ttf/Lobster-Regular.ttf (precompiled binary)
+  otf/Lobster-Regular.otf (precompiled binary)
+AUTHORS.txt
+CONTRIBUTING.md
+CONTRIBUTORS.txt
+DESCRIPTION.en_us.html
+OFL.txt
+README.md
+```
+
+No `config.yaml` exists in the upstream repository. The source file is a `.glyphs` format file, compatible with gftools-builder.
+
+**Contributors** (from git history): Pablo Impallari, Alexei Vanyashin (alexeiva), Marc Foley, ThomasJockin.
+
+## Onboarding History
+
+Lobster has a long history in Google Fonts, dating back to the initial commit (`90abd17`, the very first commit in the google/fonts repository). Key milestones for the binary:
+
+| Commit | Date | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| `90abd17` | (initial) | Initial commit (original Lobster) |
+| `037ee7b` | (early) | Added V1.007 |
+| `98f26cd` | (early) | .null width set to 0 |
+| `9053cf2` | (early) | v2.000 kerning improvements by Alexei |
+| `8d69f43` | (early) | Fixed fractions |
+| `c32a2f3` | (early) | Fixed percent and thousandth glyphs |
+| `c08bc94` | (early) | Updated copyright string, RFN |
+| `ae26195` | 2016-12-13 | v2.001 added (PR #532) |
+| `98f1d55` | 2017-11-03 | **v2.100 added (PR #1296)** — current version |
+
+**PR #1296** (the last font binary update) was authored by Marc Foley (@m4rc1e) and merged by Dave Crossland (@davelab6) on 2017-11-03. The PR body stated: "Taken from the GF Repo, https://github.com/googlefonts/The-Lobster-Font". The update added extensive Cyrillic Extended glyphs and Latin-B characters.
+
+**PR #532** (v2.001) was also by Marc Foley, merged 2016-12-13, fixing issue #525 (Cyrillic ligature issue) and RFN.
+
+## Build Configuration
+
+The upstream repository has no `config.yaml` file. The source file `sources/Lobster.glyphs` is a Glyphs-format file compatible with gftools-builder.
+
+An override `config.yaml` already exists in the google/fonts family directory:
+```yaml
+sources:
+  - sources/Lobster.glyphs
+```
+
+This was added in commit `5ddf312` on 2026-02-20.
+
+**Note on binary differences**: The font binary in google/fonts (406,076 bytes) does not match the pre-built binary in the upstream repository at commit `0796aa8` (405,892 bytes). This is expected for a 2017 onboarding — Marc Foley likely rebuilt the font from the Glyphs sources using the tooling available at the time (not gftools-builder, which did not exist yet). The source files at `0796aa8` represent the correct source state used for the v2.100 onboarding.
+
+## Findings
+
+1. **Repository URL is correct**: `https://github.com/impallari/The-Lobster-Font` is the original upstream and is accessible. The googlefonts/lobster fork shares the same commit hashes.
+
+2. **Commit hash identified**: `0796aa8` ("regenerated fonts", 2017-10-27) by Alexei Vanyashin is the last content commit before the googlefonts fork merge (`2cb4569`, 2017-10-31) and before the google/fonts PR #1296 was merged (2017-11-03). This is the correct source commit for the v2.100 update.
+
+3. **Override config.yaml already in place**: The google/fonts directory already has an override `config.yaml` pointing to `sources/Lobster.glyphs`, so no `config_yaml` field is needed in METADATA.pb.
+
+4. **Missing commit hash in METADATA.pb**: The source block lacks a `commit` field. Adding `commit: "0796aa8aa42f6cbc89fa61be4a2a12fdcd2b8998"` would complete the source metadata.
+
+5. **No newer upstream changes**: The impallari repo's last merge commit (`ee431d4`, 2023-05-03) was a no-diff merge of the cyrealtype PR — it introduced no new content beyond what was already at `0796aa8`. The source files are identical between `0796aa8` and the current HEAD (`ee431d4`).
+
+## Recommended Source Block
+
+```
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/impallari/The-Lobster-Font"
+  commit: "0796aa8aa42f6cbc89fa61be4a2a12fdcd2b8998"
+}
+```
+
+The `config_yaml` field is intentionally omitted because an override `config.yaml` already exists in the google/fonts family directory and is auto-detected by google-fonts-sources.