Upsteam.md: fonts folder?

[davelab6]

A user wrote me

According to this page I should create fonts folder and upload fonts to GitHub. On the other side, fonts folder is included to .gitignore file: https://github.com/googlefonts/googlefonts-project-template/blob/main/.gitignore

I guess .gitignore should be updated to remove that line.... thoughts @simoncozens ?

[simoncozens]

We need to decide if we are prioritising fonts built locally (and uploaded into, and onboarded from, the repo) or fonts built remotely and packaged using GHA. I have a strong preference for GHA, but we have been ambivalent on this point.

[rsheeter]

In time I want to store sources in google/fonts, no binaries in git at all.

[RosaWagner]

A lot of designers are still not empowered with GHA and tag releases. Also some projects don't fit the template and would need to customise the action (which can be complicated in some cases). To make sure the template can allow these different scenarios, I would allow what we instruct people to do: having the font folder in their repo.

For the hundreds of fonts that we have onbaorded; using github is already a complicated step for designers, asking them to use github action simply results in not working on github anymore.