I agreed on the FreeFont bug report.
At some point sizes, and on some font it looks OK, but at others I agree it
looks very odd.
In particular, I use it at 12 point on my Ubuntu system for web browsing and
such, and it looks great.
However, at 16 and 18 points, I find the overshoot distracting.
However, this deep overshoot is an original feature of the URW font on which
the Sans face is based.
You can check this yourself.
The reason nothing has been done about it is, we have no idea what could be
done about it.
What would you do? Completely revise the style of the face? Revise all 5289
glyphs in the face?
Do you have a weekend free?
A bug report on this topic (by "anonymous")
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22266
And has been commented on several times. We are still thinking about it.
As to the Savannah issues, this is not my domain, but I have heard a lot
of complaints, and I know a lot of things have changed, including
personnel. Perhaps you could try again.
By the way, not only was no pressure brought to bear, nobody told us
that you had posted anything here.
** Bug watch added: GNU Savannah Bug Tracker #22266
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22266
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