Elsie: fix source block in METADATA.pb

- Repo: librefonts/elsie
- Commit: 9734e9ff
- Config: none
- Status: missing_config
- Confidence: MEDIUM
Note: Previous URL returned 404.

diff --git a/ofl/elsie/METADATA.pb b/ofl/elsie/METADATA.pb
index aaacab691cb29d24670aa75003181c0b4e10cf17..0c579ea55604182786ab10fa8e3a6bedca46a577 100644 (file)
--- a/ofl/elsie/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/elsie/METADATA.pb
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ subsets: "latin"
 subsets: "latin-ext"
 subsets: "menu"
 source {
-  repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/elsiefont (404)"
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/librefonts/elsie"
+  commit: "9734e9ff1331292fc07ec198d4e5b35216fdd425"
 }
 stroke: "SERIF"
 classifications: "DISPLAY"

diff --git a/ofl/elsie/upstream_info.md b/ofl/elsie/upstream_info.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+# Investigation Report: Elsie
+
+## Family Details
+- **Family name**: Elsie
+- **Designer**: Alejandro Inler (with Ana Sanfelippo)
+- **License**: OFL
+- **Category**: DISPLAY / SERIF
+- **Date added to Google Fonts**: 2012-11-12
+- **Weights**: Regular (400), Black (900)
+- **Path in google/fonts**: `ofl/elsie/`
+
+## METADATA.pb Source Block (Current State)
+
+```
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/elsiefont (404)"
+}
+```
+
+The current `repository_url` includes a literal `(404)` annotation appended by Simon Cozens in PR #7160 ("More upstreams (e,f)"), merged 2024-01-16. This is not a valid URL -- it was a note that the repository was already gone at the time it was recorded.
+
+## Repository Investigation
+
+### googlefonts/elsiefont (DELETED)
+- **URL**: https://github.com/googlefonts/elsiefont
+- **Status**: Returns HTTP 404. Repository has been deleted or never existed.
+- **Evidence**: Confirmed via HTTP request on 2026-02-27.
+
+### googlefonts/elsie (EMPTY)
+- **URL**: https://github.com/googlefonts/elsie
+- **Status**: Returns HTTP 200, but the repository is **completely empty** -- zero commits, zero branches, zero content.
+- **Created**: 2017-09-25
+- **Not a fork**: Standalone empty repo, never populated.
+
+### librefonts/elsie (LEGACY ARCHIVE)
+- **URL**: https://github.com/librefonts/elsie
+- **Status**: Active (HTTP 200), contains source files.
+- **Created**: 2014-07-16 by Mikhail Kashkin (xen)
+- **Initial commit**: `af81473` -- "Move elsie font files to separate repository"
+- **Latest commit**: `9734e9f` (2014-10-17) -- "update .travis.yml"
+- **Total commits**: 12 (all in 2014, no activity since)
+- **Cloned to cache**: `fontc_crater_cache/librefonts/elsie/`
+
+#### Source Files in librefonts/elsie
+The `src/` directory contains:
+- `Elsie-Regular-TTF.sfd` -- FontForge Spline Font Database (Regular)
+- `Elsie-Black-TTF.sfd` -- FontForge Spline Font Database (Black)
+- `Elsie-Regular-OTF.vfb` / `Elsie-Regular-OTF.vfbak` -- FontLab binary (Regular)
+- `Elsie-Black-OTF.vfb` / `Elsie-Black-OTF.vfbak` -- FontLab binary (Black)
+- Various `.otf.*.ttx` decompositions of OTF files
+- `Elsie-Black-Poster.pdf`
+
+Root directory contains TTX decompositions of the TTF binaries (split per table), plus `METADATA.json` and `OFL.txt`.
+
+#### Source Format Assessment
+- **SFD files**: FontForge format. Not compatible with gftools-builder.
+- **VFB files**: FontLab 5 binary format. Not compatible with gftools-builder.
+- **No `.glyphs`, `.ufo`, or `.designspace` files** are available anywhere.
+- **No `config.yaml`** exists in the repo.
+
+## Onboarding History in google/fonts
+
+### Initial commit (2015-03-07)
+- **Commit**: `90abd17b` -- "Initial commit" by Dave Crossland
+- **Note**: This was a bulk initial import; no upstream reference recorded.
+
+### PR #884 (2017-05-08) -- hotfix-elsie: v1.002 added
+- **Author**: Marc Foley (m4rc1e)
+- **Changes**: Updated both `Elsie-Regular.ttf` (41044 -> 40956 bytes) and `Elsie-Black.ttf` (42424 -> 42216 bytes), plus `DESCRIPTION.en_us.html` and `METADATA.pb`.
+- **No upstream reference** in commit body or PR description.
+
+### PR #2754 (2020-10-28) -- [hotfix] ofl/elsie/Elsie-Regular.ttf updated
+- **Author**: Rosalie Wagner (RosaWagner)
+- **Changes**: Updated only `Elsie-Regular.ttf` (40956 -> 38936 bytes).
+- **Purpose**: Fix issue #515 (fi/fj ligature problem) by removing f_i and f_j ligatures, version bumped from 1.002 to 1.003.
+- **Note**: "few FAILS since it's an old font" -- hotfix was done directly on the binary, not from sources.
+
+### PR #7522 (2024-04-08) -- Hotfix fi and fj for ElsieSwashCaps-Regular.ttf
+- **Author**: Yanone
+- **Key quote**: *"Reminder: We don't have sources"*
+- **This confirms**: The Google Fonts team acknowledges that no usable source files exist for the Elsie family. Hotfixes were performed directly on the binary font files.
+
+### PR #7160 (2024-01-16) -- More upstreams (e,f)
+- **Author**: Simon Cozens (simoncozens)
+- **Added**: The current `repository_url: "https://github.com/googlefonts/elsiefont (404)"` noting the URL was already dead.
+
+### PR #10266 (open) -- Fix broken repository_url in 6 METADATA.pb files
+- **Author**: felipesanches (AI-assisted)
+- **Proposes**: Removing the invalid URL entirely from the source block.
+- **Status**: Open, not yet merged.
+
+## Related Family
+- **Elsie Swash Caps** (`ofl/elsieswashcaps/`): Sibling family by the same designer. Uses `librefonts/elsieswashcaps` as upstream, which also has SFD-only sources.
+
+## Designer Information
+- **Alejandro Inler** (alejandroinler@gmail.com): No GitHub account found (HTTP 404 for `github.com/alejandroinler`).
+- **Ana Sanfelippo**: Co-developer credited in the description.
+- The copyright dates are 2010-2012, predating the Google Fonts onboarding.
+
+## Config.yaml Assessment
+- **No config.yaml** exists in `librefonts/elsie`.
+- **No config.yaml** exists in `ofl/elsie/` in google/fonts.
+- **Cannot create an override config.yaml**: The only source files are SFD (FontForge) and VFB (FontLab 5), neither of which is supported by gftools-builder. There are no `.glyphs`, `.ufo`, or `.designspace` files to reference.
+
+## Conclusions
+
+### Repository URL
+The correct upstream repository is **https://github.com/librefonts/elsie**. While this is a legacy archive (last updated 2014) and the sources are not gftools-builder compatible, it is the only repository containing actual source files for this font family. The `googlefonts/elsiefont` URL was always invalid, and `googlefonts/elsie` exists but is empty.
+
+### Commit Hash
+No specific onboarding commit can be identified in `librefonts/elsie`. The repo has only 12 commits (all from 2014), with the latest being `9734e9f` (2014-10-17, a Travis CI update). The font sources (SFD/VFB files) were all added in the initial commit `af81473` (2014-07-16) and never modified after that.
+
+The font binaries in google/fonts have been hotfixed multiple times (PR #884, PR #2754) directly without rebuilding from sources.
+
+### Status
+- **Repository URL**: `https://github.com/librefonts/elsie` (valid, contains SFD sources)
+- **Commit hash**: `af81473` (initial commit containing all source files; sources never changed after this)
+- **Config**: None (SFD-only sources, not gftools-builder compatible)
+- **Status**: `missing_config` -- SFD-only sources cannot be built with gftools-builder
+- **Confidence**: MEDIUM -- The librefonts/elsie repo contains legitimate SFD sources but was never the official upstream used for Google Fonts onboarding. The fonts were likely compiled from VFB/SFD sources offline by the designer and submitted as binaries. Subsequent hotfixes were done directly on binaries.
+
+## Recommended Actions
+1. **Update METADATA.pb**: Replace the invalid `"https://github.com/googlefonts/elsiefont (404)"` URL with `"https://github.com/librefonts/elsie"`.
+2. **Note in source block**: This is a SFD-only repo; no gftools-builder rebuild is possible without source format conversion.
+3. **PR #10266 update**: The currently open PR proposes removing the URL entirely. It could instead be updated to point to `librefonts/elsie` as the best available source repository.