Thunderbird for Android Release Notes

[Sancus]

We should get this figured out. Is there interest in using the same structure as https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-notes ? That would be the easiest for publishing on the website.

We can publish to different URLs or pages, change page layouts, etc. We could use a different repo or the same repo but a different folder. Lots of options here. Only caveat is I'd be careful about forking the whole thing and changing the logic, as then we have two notes libraries that need to be maintained.

[wsmwk]

Tangential, thunderbird/thunderbird-notes#43 suggests changes needed to the links in desktop release notes. These same 3 links will need to be changed for android release notes.

[MelissaAutumn]

It's now in thunderbird-notes
https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-notes/blob/master/android_release/8.0.yml

But we don't have any version information to actually list in on a page without crawling the directory.

[MelissaAutumn]

Corey did point out we could parse it from github directly, if we assume either the name or tag scheme doesn't change then we should be able to line it up with the yml information.

https://api.github.com/repos/thunderbird/thunderbird-android/releases

[coreycb]

It's worth noting the structure of the TfA yaml files in https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-notes have differences vs the desktop yaml files. These differences need to be documented in the README. I will try to get to that soon.

[Sancus]

The code that parses the notes is all in thunderbird-notes. I suggest that the notes should be normalized in terms of format, so the same type of property always has the same name in any notes file regardless of product.

Any changes to the baseline spec should be added as features/new properties that would also work in any notes file. If an old property needs to be restructured to accommodate a new requirement, you can always do a migration script. We've done that before.

Maintaining distinct structural differences for each new app that gets added is probably not sustainable.