From: Felipe Correa da Silva Sanches <juca@members.fsf.org>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 10:42:39 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Forum: add source block to METADATA.pb
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Forum: add source block to METADATA.pb

- Repo: librefonts/forum
- Commit: e8efc0bc
- Config: none
- Status: missing_config
- Confidence: MEDIUM
---

diff --git a/ofl/forum/METADATA.pb b/ofl/forum/METADATA.pb
index 61d84adf6..e72dfa21f 100644
--- a/ofl/forum/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/forum/METADATA.pb
@@ -19,3 +19,7 @@ subsets: "latin"
 subsets: "latin-ext"
 stroke: "SERIF"
 classifications: "DISPLAY"
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/librefonts/forum"
+  commit: "e8efc0bceef3b98cf32f722bf637f3c110f68a37"
+}
diff --git a/ofl/forum/upstream_info.md b/ofl/forum/upstream_info.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..95761c6ff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ofl/forum/upstream_info.md
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+# Investigation: Forum
+
+## Summary
+
+- **Family name**: Forum
+- **Designer**: Denis Masharov
+- **Date added to Google Fonts**: 2011-07-06
+- **Repository URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/forum
+- **Commit**: e8efc0bceef3b98cf32f722bf637f3c110f68a37
+- **Config**: none (VFB-only sources)
+- **Status**: complete (no buildable sources)
+- **Confidence**: HIGH
+
+## METADATA.pb (current)
+
+The current METADATA.pb has no `source` block. The font is categorized as DISPLAY/SERIF with subsets: menu, cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext.
+
+## Upstream Repository
+
+- **URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/forum (verified accessible, HTTP 200)
+- **Type**: librefonts archive repo (TTX decomposition + VFB sources)
+- **Single commit**: `e8efc0b` by hash3g (2014-10-17) -- "update .travis.yml"
+- **Remote**: `origin` at `https://github.com/librefonts/forum`
+- **Status**: clean, up to date with origin/master
+
+### Repository Contents
+
+The repo contains:
+- **Root**: TTX decomposition files of `Forum-Regular.ttf` (split by table), plus DESCRIPTION.en_us.html, METADATA.json, OFL.txt, menusubset-forum.ff, .travis.yml
+- **src/**: `Forum-Regular.vfb` (258,436 bytes), `Forum-Regular-TTF.vfb` (268,592 bytes), OTF TTX decomposition files, METADATA_comments.txt, VERSIONS.txt
+
+### Source File Analysis
+
+- **VFB files** (FontLab Studio binary format): These are the original design sources but are not buildable with gftools-builder or fontc.
+- **No .glyphs, .ufo, .designspace, or .sfd files** exist in the repo.
+- **No config.yaml** exists in the repo.
+- The TTX files are decompositions of the compiled binary, not editable design sources.
+- VERSIONS.txt confirms: "Forum-Regular.ttf: Version 1.000"
+
+## google/fonts History
+
+The font binary (`Forum-Regular.ttf`, 303,316 bytes) has been unchanged since the initial commit in google/fonts:
+- **Initial commit**: `90abd17b` (2015-03-07) by Dave Crossland -- "Initial commit" -- blob hash `961dffbb`
+- **Current HEAD**: Same blob hash `961dffbb` -- the binary has never been modified
+- The font was originally part of the Google Web Fonts directory (dateAdded: 2011-07-06) and was migrated to the google/fonts repo in the 2015 initial import.
+
+### Font Metadata (from TTX name table)
+
+- Copyright: "Copyright (c) 2011, Denis Masharov"
+- Version: 1.000
+- Created: Thu Jun 30 08:26:00 2011
+- Modified: Thu Jun 30 08:28:24 2011
+- Unique ID: "DenisMasharov: Forum: 2011"
+
+## Commit Hash Verification
+
+The upstream repo has only a single commit (`e8efc0b`), so this is trivially the correct reference. The repo was created on 2014-10-17 as a librefonts archive containing the TTX decomposition and VFB sources of the original font. Since the google/fonts binary has never been updated, this single commit encompasses all the source material that corresponds to the font in the catalog.
+
+## Build Configuration
+
+No config.yaml is needed. The upstream repo contains only VFB sources (FontLab binary format), which are not compatible with gftools-builder or fontc. There are no .glyphs, .ufo, .designspace, or .sfd source files that could be used for rebuilding.
+
+## Proposed Source Block
+
+```
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/librefonts/forum"
+  commit: "e8efc0bceef3b98cf32f722bf637f3c110f68a37"
+}
+```
+
+No `config_yaml` field is needed since there are no buildable sources.