On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 17:02, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@chello.at> wrote:
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> #1957 F29 Change: Liberation Fonts 2
> https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1957
> DECISION (+6, 0, 0)

Sigh!

Really nothing has changed since the decision in Fedora 19 to stick with
Liberation 1, only 4 years have passed without any changes whatsoever to the
"Liberation 2" fonts.

Liberation 1 is no longer developed upstream, but as far as I can tell,
neither is Liberation 2.

Agree not much happened in upstream. Its because i was busy in other project and also conflict between Liberation 1  and 2. Basic idea behind Liberation 2 was to stop bug fixing on Liberation 1 and develop 2 for future.  But still we were using Liberation 1.
Now, we have new maintainer for Liberation Fonts and with clear direction for Liberation 2, he will do the required bug-fixes and enhancements into it. He is already working on adding BitCoin glyph to it.
 

"Liberation 2" fonts are essentially rebranded Google Croscore fonts.

No, Liberation 2 are not just re-branded.  We have done bug-fixing and also added Serbian language support into it. [1]

And
those Google Croscore fonts are, in fact, already packaged in Fedora
(https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/google-croscore-fonts). Why can't we
just let Liberation be Liberation and Croscore be Croscore?

Unlike Liberation, Google just released .ttf version for there fonts. I have not see any way, to fix issues in Noto upstream [2] and rebuilt that .ttf.
In Liberation 2, we have source file .sfd, one can fix, provide patch. 

Thanks Kevin for raising this point, i assure will get more development on Liberation 2 soon. Bug list for Liberation 2 [3]

Thanks,
Pravin Satpute

1. https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts/commits/master
2. https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/tree/master/hinted
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&classification=Fedora&component=liberation-fonts&list_id=9312222&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced