Beta Releases and Fdroid

[mtalexan]

It's been almost 3 years now since there was a release of this project, which means the newest Fdroid version is similarly almost 3 years old now.

Since the signing key for the signature on the APK of this project has to match the signing key of the signature of all the other Termux ecosystem apps, that currently means the options are either:

• Each user forks every Termux-related project and sets up their own GitHub Actions on all of them using their own signing key, then installs everything only using their personal copy of APKs
• All Termux-related applications are installed via Fdroid and 3-year old features from Termux:API are all that's available

Both are really horrible situations since so much useful work has gone into this project in the last 3 years, and setting up your own personal forks of every repo and build is very onerous.

The stated reason for not doing a new release of this project has consistently been "needing to stabilize". At some point I don't personally see a difference between missing dozens of necessary fixes for the prior release to work on modern Android versions and any potential instability bugs in the current version, but that's a project maintainer preference so who am I to argue.

As an intermediate solution, I'd like to propose a regularly occuring "beta"/"alpha"/"nightly" release of this project be added that has no guarantees about stability, but makes the latest changes available to the wider audiences by the fact that it gets carried as a pre-release version on Fdroid. My understanding is that Fdroid needs the GitHub project to have these marked as "Releases" that are flagged as pre-release, and a setting in the Fdroid configuration for the project needs to be enable to create/include pre-releases.