Bentham: add source block to METADATA.pb

- Repo: librefonts/bentham
- Commit: a89643ad (update .travis.yml)
- Config: (none)
- Status: missing_config
- Confidence: MEDIUM

diff --git a/ofl/bentham/METADATA.pb b/ofl/bentham/METADATA.pb
index 8075cd170fd20395126b41fcd88a39797e9d467a..fa5de2f89aa9ae41c56ab542a740f21ae37631a3 100644 (file)
--- a/ofl/bentham/METADATA.pb
+++ b/ofl/bentham/METADATA.pb
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ designer: "Ben Weiner"
 license: "OFL"
 category: "SERIF"
 date_added: "2010-11-30"
+source {
+  repository_url: "https://github.com/librefonts/bentham"
+  commit: "a89643ad524f785a73f5326e6ee901fb042fa765"
+}
+
 fonts {
   name: "Bentham"
   style: "normal"

diff --git a/ofl/bentham/upstream_info.md b/ofl/bentham/upstream_info.md
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..86cc2c4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ofl/bentham/upstream_info.md
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Bentham - Investigation Report
+
+## Source Data (from tracking)
+
+| Field | Value |
+|-------|-------|
+| Family Name | Bentham |
+| Repository URL | https://github.com/librefonts/bentham |
+| Commit Hash | a89643ad524f785a73f5326e6ee901fb042fa765 |
+| Config YAML | (none) |
+| Status | missing_config |
+| Category | SERIF |
+
+## How the Repository URL Was Found
+
+The repository URL `https://github.com/librefonts/bentham` comes from the librefonts organization on GitHub, a collection of decompiled font repos maintained by Marc Foley. The URL was recorded in the tracking data and added to METADATA.pb in commit `9a14639f3` (on branch `sources_info_2026-02-25`, not yet merged to main).
+
+## How the Commit Hash Was Determined
+
+The commit hash `a89643ad524f785a73f5326e6ee901fb042fa765` is the latest (HEAD) commit in the librefonts/bentham repo, dated 2014-10-17. This was set because it is the most recent commit in the repository and corresponds to a Travis CI config update ("update .travis.yml").
+
+**Font history in google/fonts**:
+- Initial commit `90abd17b4`: Font first added to google/fonts
+- `d1b545148`: "Updating ofl/bentham/*ttf with nbspace and fsType fixes"
+- `4e933f27b`: "hotfix-bentham: v2.002 added" (PR #854, by Marc Foley, 2017-08-07)
+
+The hotfix PR #854 by Marc Foley had an empty body, providing no context about the source of the updated TTFs. The librefonts repo's last commit predates the hotfix by about 3 years (2014 vs 2017).
+
+## Config YAML Status
+
+- **No `config.yaml`** exists in the upstream librefonts repo (not at any commit)
+- **No override `config.yaml`** in `google/fonts/ofl/bentham/`
+- The repo contains only **SFD sources** (`src/Bentham-TTF.sfd`) and TTX-decomposed font files
+- SFD (FontForge format) is not compatible with gftools-builder
+- No UFO, Glyphs, or DesignSpace sources are available
+
+## Verification
+
+- Commit hash `a89643a` exists in the repo (message: "update .travis.yml", dated 2014-10-17)
+- It is the HEAD commit of the master branch (11 total commits in the repo)
+- Repository URL is valid and accessible
+- The upstream repo is cached at `upstream_repos/fontc_crater_cache/librefonts/bentham`
+- PR #854 body was empty
+
+## Confidence Level
+
+**Medium** - The commit hash is simply HEAD of the librefonts mirror repo. The librefonts repo is not the original design source -- it was created by extracting TTX data from the compiled fonts. The original designer is Ben Weiner (ben@readingtype.org.uk). The repo only has SFD and TTX sources, making gftools-builder integration impossible without conversion work.
+
+## Open Questions
+
+- The font's original source files from Ben Weiner are not known to be publicly available outside this librefonts mirror
+- SFD-only sources cannot be used with gftools-builder; this family would need a UFO/Glyphs conversion or an alternative build approach
+- The hotfix from 2017 may have used a process not reflected in the librefonts repo (which was last updated in 2014)
+- This font was added to Google Fonts in 2010, making it one of the original catalog fonts with limited source documentation