Noticia Text: add source block to METADATA.pb

- Repo: jmsole/noticiatext
- Commit: bcc80c5 (single commit, 2016-09-28)
- Status: complete
- Confidence: HIGH
Designer's own repo; Glyphs sources for all 4 styles.

Assisted by an AI agent (Claude Opus 4.6)

diff --git a/ofl/noticiatext/METADATA.pb b/ofl/noticiatext/METADATA.pb
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--- a/ofl/noticiatext/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/noticiatext/METADATA.pb
@@ -43,3 +43,7 @@ subsets: "menu"
 subsets: "latin"
 subsets: "latin-ext"
 subsets: "vietnamese"
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/jmsole/noticiatext"
+  commit: "bcc80c5a33855419251ac3b9d1fa08d42d52f3ef"
+}

diff --git a/ofl/noticiatext/upstream_info.md b/ofl/noticiatext/upstream_info.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+# Noticia Text — Source Metadata Investigation
+
+**Model**: Claude Opus 4.6
+**Date**: 2026-03-12
+
+## Repository
+
+- **URL**: https://github.com/jmsole/noticiatext
+- **Status**: Authoritative upstream repository, maintained by the original designer José Miguel Solé (JM Solé).
+- **Default branch**: master
+- **Latest commit**: `bcc80c5a33855419251ac3b9d1fa08d42d52f3ef` — "Initial commit and repository setup." (2016-09-28)
+- **Repository description**: "Main repository for Noticia Text font by JM Solé"
+
+## Source Files
+
+The `source/` directory contains Glyphs source files for all four styles:
+
+- `NoticiaText-Regular.glyphs`
+- `NoticiaText-Italic.glyphs`
+- `NoticiaText-Bold.glyphs`
+- `NoticiaText-BoldItalic.glyphs`
+
+The `source/vfb/` subdirectory also contains the original FontLab VFB sources:
+
+- `NoticiaText-Regular.vfb`
+- `NoticiaText-Italic.vfb`
+- `NoticiaText-Bold.vfb`
+- `NoticiaText-BoldItalic.vfb`
+
+The `extras/` directory at the repo root contains additional assets (exact contents not fully enumerated).
+
+The FONTLOG documents three source file types per style: the original contour-overlap VFB, a merged/OTF-optimized VFB, and a TrueType-hinted VFB. The Glyphs files in `source/` are likely converted from the VFB originals for the 2016 repository setup.
+
+## Build System
+
+No automated build system (Makefile, build scripts, or `gftools` configuration) is present in the repository. The repo contains only source files and a README. The existing production binaries were built using FontLab and manually hinted for Windows rasterization (as described in the FONTLOG).
+
+## config.yaml Status
+
+No `config.yaml` exists in `/mnt/shared/google/fonts/ofl/noticiatext/`. None is present in the upstream repo either.
+
+## Notes
+
+- The font binaries in the google/fonts repo (Version 1.003) match the changelog entry "16 December 2011 (v.1.003)" in the FONTLOG, confirming these are the final released versions.
+- The jmsole/noticiatext repository was set up in 2016 with only a single commit; there has been no subsequent upstream development.
+- The designer's contact: info@jmsole.cl, website: http://jmsole.cl (Chilean type designer).
+- The FONTLOG describes an ambitious 18-style family vision (text, condensed, display, sans variants), but only the 4 text styles have been released.
+- The Glyphs source format (`.glyphs`) is the most practical entry point for any future maintenance work using modern tooling (`fontmake` + `gftools`).
+- A `config.yaml` could be authored to enable a `fontmake`-based build pipeline from the `.glyphs` sources, but this would require QA comparison against the manually hinted existing binaries.