Intent to archive

This repository contains a lot of tools which were once used in the Noto production process; however, the process has changed and simplified over time, and the only parts of the repo which are now used (by the Noto team) are noto_lint.py and test_vertical_extents.py.

noto_lint.py should really be replaced by the Noto profile in fontbakery; test_vertical_extents.py is a handy script which could find a home in gftools.

Having the other tools around is misleading, as it implies they are used by Noto when they aren’t. However, if there are tools out there which people are using, I’d like to hear about it, so we can think how those uses can be best supported. If I don’t hear anything, I’m planning to convert two tools we do use and then the archive this repo by the end of April.

[rsheeter]

Wrt unicode data, @anthrotype maintains https://github.com/fonttools/unicodedata2. If we want to invest in improving a unicode data library I’d prefer we look to that.

[rsheeter]

I’d prefer we start by just pruning. Please send any PRs to me and @anthrotype .