initial fastlane structures from IzzyOnDroid

[IzzySoft]

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this PR provides you with a "fastlane starter package" – to give it into your hands to define how your app is presented, and make it easy to keep descriptions & graphics in sync with your development. Some notes to sum them up in a place easy to find for you:

• the IzzyOnDroid Fastlane Documentation can guide you with maintaining the structures here
• take special care for limits, e.g. per-release changelogs can have max 500 chars, full_description.txt max 4,000 chars, graphics must have specific aspect ratios etc.
• you can have "bigger graphics" here; the IoD updater takes care to resize/optimize them as needed
• for the full_description.txt here I've used HTML compressed into a single line, to prevent the fdroid software converting each line break to a <br>. The tags used for this are supported by F-Droid.org as well, and to my knowledge even by PlayStore.
• whenever you add a new "type" of metadata that has not been there before (e.g. the first changelog, a featureGraphic if it wasn't yet present), please let us know so we can check and enable it.
• Details on all this in the linked documentation.
• Once merged, your changes will be synced whenever a new release is pulled in here – to make sure it stays up-to-date with the app itself.
• Should you have questions, be welcome to ask :wink:

And now: Enjoy!

[IzzySoft]

@OffRange any chance to get this merged? As we need to move on with our repo reorg at IzzyOnDroid, it would help us a lot. Thanks in advance!

[IzzySoft]

Thanks for your response! I could of course perform the suggested edits. But if the fastlane tree is not in the default branch, it makes no sense from our end, as we cannot sync it from alternative branches. Further, the question is if it would ever make it to the default branch that way.

You're of course free to adjust as you see fit, this is just a "starter package". So which way would you wish to process this?

[IzzySoft]

If the screenshots need to be replaced anyway, maybe we remove them from this PR, so it can match the current default branch? Everything can be updated lateron, and would then get synchronized at our end whenever a new release is being pulled in. For our current stage of repo reorg, it's mostly important to have the text part "upstream" in the app's repo.

[IzzySoft]

@OffRange so would removing the screenshots from this PR make it possible to get it merged sooner? Having it merged would help us at IzzyOnDroid with our ongoing reorg.

[OffRange]

I considered merging it now. With v2 still moving, not only the images but also the descriptions will likely go stale before release. I’m trying to avoid changes I might forget to update later. Once the v2 strings are final, we can update the text and merge in one go. I think thats the best for all sides.

[IzzySoft]

Thanks for the update, Davis! Any ETA for when that might be? We're about to finalize on our end this month (not this week, probably not next week either, but after that, according to our ETA). So if we know there are a few projects which would merge a few days after we plan finalizing, we certainly could adjust. And if we know which project need longer – well, then we'd know we shouldn't wait for them, and instead have an additional task later :man_shrugging: There will be several where the devs are currently "occupied elsewhere" (no offense meant – that's life, and our projects in most cases a hobby).

I’m trying to avoid changes I might forget to update later.

An argument I can totally understand, thanks!

[OffRange]

Unfortunately, there’s no way for me to estimate the v2 release at this time.

[IzzySoft]

OK, understood, thanks! At least no "uncertainty" on our end then; we'll simply have to deal with it twice, should we finalize before you're ready.