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New releases are a chance to talk about how a project is developing. I'm happy to make another post in a bigger community to get more feedback, but I wanted to check here first to see if this is something you might want to do @PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
A potential process could be
- User makes a request in !meta@ponder.cat, and tags the relevant mod
- If the mod approves, they can tag the admin of this instance to turn the feed on
There are also general communities that this could work for, such as !opensource@programming.dev or !selfhosted@lemmy.world, but those communities are active and may see this as spam. It may help to crosspost the bot posts to them instead.
Technical:
- This article had some information on creating feeds for GitHub.
- There may be a similar option for the GitHub alternatives.
- F-Droid would be cool, but I don't think that's possible yet
Potential issue: Repos with lots of pre-releases may feel like spam. Relevant issues here and here. Those repos could be skipped.
(sorry if this was already discussed)
I think that could work well!
I'm starting to test out this system, although it took me a little longer than I thought. Do you want to add any feeds? You can be the one to give it a test run first, if you want to. Otherwise I'll make a public announcement and see what happens.
You have to DM the bot, and you have to be a moderator of the community you're editing feeds for. I did comment mentions initially, but it looks like they may not federate reliably. I think DMs are a better way to do it for the time being.
Cool that sounds good! I'll give it out slowly with a few communities
I like the about section on the bot's user profile