Merge PR #222: repo reorg + load-on-demand settings companion (12.1 lane)

The repo root becomes a container holding two addons: DandersFrames (resident)
and DandersFrames_Options (## LoadOnDemand: 1, loads on /df). ~25% less memory at
login for anyone who never opens the settings panel.

Clean auto-merge; the only overlapping file was .github/workflows/release.yml,
where the local locale-validation hardening and the PR's path updates combined
without conflict — both verified present afterwards.

Post-merge checks: both TOCs complete in both directions (90 and 36 entries, zero
missing, zero orphans); all 36 companion files bind the parent table correctly via
'local DF = DandersFrames' with none using the companion's own vararg; both TOC
versions in step at v5.0.0-alpha.13.

⚠ Local setup change: AddOns/DandersFrames can no longer point at the repo root on
this branch. Each install needs two junctions, into DandersFrames/ and
DandersFrames_Options/. Remove the old link with 'cmd //c rmdir', never rm -rf —
it is a junction and Git Bash follows it into the working tree.

Author: mergetest

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ jobs:
           DOMINATED=true
           for f in $(git diff --name-only HEAD~1..HEAD 2>/dev/null); do
             case "$f" in
-              *.md|*.sh|.github/*|.gitignore|.pkgmeta|Changelog.lua) ;;
+              *.md|*.sh|.github/*|.gitignore|.pkgmeta|DandersFrames/Core/Changelog.lua|DandersFrames_Options/Changelog.lua) ;;
               *) DOMINATED=false; break ;;
             esac
           done
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ jobs:
           fi
           ./generate_changelog.sh
 
-          VERSION=$(grep '^## Version:' DandersFrames.toc | sed 's/^## Version: //')
-          CHANNEL=$(grep 'DF.RELEASE_CHANNEL' Changelog.lua | sed 's/.*= "\(.*\)"/\1/')
+          VERSION=$(grep '^## Version:' DandersFrames/DandersFrames.toc | sed 's/^## Version: //')
+          CHANNEL=$(grep 'DF.RELEASE_CHANNEL' DandersFrames/Core/Changelog.lua | sed 's/.*= "\(.*\)"/\1/')
           echo "version=$VERSION" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
           echo "channel=$CHANNEL" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 

.pkgmeta

@@ -1,13 +1,35 @@
 package-as: DandersFrames
 enable-nolib-creation: no
 
+# The repo root is a container: it holds the addon folders rather than being
+# one. The packager copies the checkout into .release/<package-as>/, so both
+# land a level too deep; move-folders lifts them back out to the zip root.
+#
+# move-folders keys are relative to the working directory and INCLUDE the
+# package name as the root; values are relative to the package root. So
+# "DandersFrames/DandersFrames: DandersFrames" reads as "the DandersFrames
+# folder inside the package dir becomes the top-level DandersFrames" -- it
+# looks like it collides with its own parent and does not. This is the
+# documented shape for a container repo that ships more than one folder;
+# verified against a working example before writing it, after talking myself
+# out of it once on the assumption that it would collide.
+#
+# Everything at the repo root that is not an addon folder is stripped by the
+# ignore list below, so the zip contains only the two addon folders.
+move-folders:
+  DandersFrames/DandersFrames: DandersFrames
+  DandersFrames/DandersFrames_Options: DandersFrames_Options
+
 ignore:
   - CHANGELOG.md
   - README.md
+  - TRANSLATING.md
   - generate_changelog.sh
   - Tools
   - .github
   - .gitignore
+  # Editor/tooling metadata (wow-api.json and friends). Nothing reads it at runtime.
+  - .gitnexus
   # Contributor documentation. Tracked in git so it travels with pull requests,
   # stripped here so it never reaches the packaged addon users download.
   - docs