Ponder.cat RSS Meta @rss.ponder.cat Otter @lemmy.ca 9mo ago

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

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)

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!list playground@ponder.cat
- No commands found. Did you mean to send me RSS commands?
  
  Available commands:
  
  /add {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Add a new RSS feed
  
  /delete {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Delete an existing RSS feed
  
  /list {community}@{instance} - List all feeds for a community
  
  /help - Show this help message
  
  You can include multiple commands in a single message, each on a new line.
  
  Nice ok :)
  
  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.
  
  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

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