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Would it be good to have RSS feeds for new releases of FOSS projects, posted in their relevant communities? (self.meta)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by otter to c/[email protected]

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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 @[email protected]

A potential process could be

User makes a request in [email protected], 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 [email protected] or [email protected], 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)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I can't decide between /list and !list as the command format. I think !list is a more standard format for bot interactions, but ! already means a community name, and the duplication is not ideal, so I went with /list. I keep typing !list though.

[–] otter 1 points 4 months ago

I went through a similar chain of thoughts, I think this should work :)

Another option is -list, but that might be more for command line flags