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Thanks to everyone who participated in the closed test program, we finally had the app accepted (again!) on Google Play. An "open testing" channel has been configured which now points to the last beta, but there are no more restrictions on who can participate in it.

Once I finish with the activities I'm working on – manly bug fixes for issues you have reported or small feature additions – I'll be releasing a candidate for the production track. Thanks to all those who helped and to all new translators, your contribution was really welcome and will surely improve everyone's experience.

I hope to see this project continuing to grow this year! #livefasteattrash #procyonproject

Today a new synchronization job has run and the app has been imported! 🎉🎊🎉 I know it may not mean much to you, but for me (after more than a year for the first build attempt) this is a great achievement! I had lost hopes but, since I was starting the submission again for the "twin" project Raccoon for Friendica, I thought it would cost little to try again. And the idea proved successful!

If you are wondering what the root cause of the issues was last year, builds were not reproducible due to a l10ns plugin. F-Droid maintainers told me so I proceeded to remove it and find another way to read localization files.

Another "infrastructure" news is that I've set up a cool code coverage (Kover) plugin to measure how much the code is covered by unit tests and upload the reports to Codecov to see charts about how the metric evolves.

The last message before closing the old community stated that, after a break, it would be decided whether to restart from an existing fork or to recreate a repository in an anonymous account. We have decided to do both things, taking the most active fork (which was updated to the latest commit), transferring it to a neutral organization and using that as a starting point.

The biggest limit of the previous approach, as emerged on August 1st, was that even if the app was presented as a “community project”, its ownership and all the decision making process (as well as the majority of the development heavy-lifting) was concentrated in the hands of a single person, which could take questionable decisions due to personal contingencies. Being a human and having a single point of view, errors can be made and reactions can be disproportionate with respect to their causes.

In order to prevent this from happening again, the new organization will have a more open, transparent and community-drive