[HOLD for payment 2025-01-21] [HOLD for payment 2025-01-18] Add Firebase Distribution to deploy process to speed up QA

[AndrewGable]

Problem

Google Play is reviewing every staging build and it is slowing down the ability for QA to test the latest releases.

Solution

Upload our Android build to Firebase Distribution in order to skip the review and allow QA to grab the releases in a faster manner.

[melvin-bot]

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[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.0.83-5 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [No QA] Add applause group to Firebase app distribution #55092

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2025-01-18. 🎊

[melvin-bot]

The solution for this issue has been 🚀 deployed to production 🚀 in version 9.0.84-7 and is now subject to a 7-day regression period 📆. Here is the list of pull requests that resolve this issue:

• [No QA] Add applause group to Firebase app distribution #55092

If no regressions arise, payment will be issued on 2025-01-21. 🎊

[melvin-bot]

@AndrewGable Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[melvin-bot]

Skipping the payment summary for this issue since all the assignees are employees or vendors. If this is incorrect, please manually add the payment summary SO.

[melvin-bot]

@AndrewGable Huh... This is 4 days overdue. Who can take care of this?