Show app changelog in F-Droid

[scollovati]

This app does not easily show its changelog inside F-Droid as other apps do. See attachment for a comparison with ETar.

Here is showed how it can be published inside the repo metadata (search for "changelog" in the page): https://f-droid.org/en/docs/All_About_Descriptions_Graphics_and_Screenshots/#ways-of-providing-metadata

[sunkup]

Thanks for the idea. We will take it into consideration.

[rfc2822]

We did that previously for some versions, but it's uncomfortable and requires adding a text file for every release. Then we often have minor releases and the question is, should we put everything of the major release or only the "hotfix XXX" into this text file? Then people will often only see the "hotfix" string and not the list of the features of the previous version, which would probably be more interesting.

But we have git tag descriptions in most times, and F-Droid uses git tags to detect new versions. Maybe you can convince them to take the changelogs from there?

[scollovati]

As per my knowledge, a lot of app already populate that file. That seems to be a sort of a "standard" for publishing changelogs to the different app stores (GPlay reads release notes from there, and so F-Droid): https://docs.fastlane.tools/actions/set_changelog/

[rfc2822]

How should Google Play read files in the source code? We don't use fastlane for deployment.

Apart from that, we want to go into the direction that changelogs are generated automatically on Github.

In short: I already did that for previous versions, but it was too cumbersome for too little outcome.

I still also don't know how to deal with the hotfixes, do you have a suggestion for it?

[scollovati]

Well, the outcome of publishing the changelog in a standard format is that it can be read in the same way by different App Stores (GPlay and F-Droid for sure). I guess that there may be a reasonable way of automating the creation of the file in a nice way.

Regarding the hotfixes, IMHO you can actually display the hotfix along with a link to the major release notes.