As mentioned in the last [What are you working on this week?] thread I’ve been working on a simple system to get stable release versions from Wikipedia, as an RSS feed.
There are a bunch of projects I use for work, and I maintain them via chef. I wanted the easiest way to keep track of their updates, without getting too much noise about beta releases. I looked around and found Wikipedia to be the best low-noise source.
What this does is you give a bunch of wikipedia pages of projects you use (and/or pick from the list of pages which are already tracked), and you get an RSS feed which updates whenever the ‘Release version’ entry on Wikipedia changes.
neat idea.
I agree, looks really quite nice. But I can’t help to wonder how up to date those Wikipedia articles are or even can be, if the are not directly updated by the author(s) after a new release? Does Wikipedia source them automatically? I’d guess “no”, but I do not know. Perhaps
git tags and/or regexes on release pages would be good additional sources for some of that software.There’s a Github-wiki-bot, that “automatically extracts stable releases and the release dates of Software from GitHub” as of August 2017 (Discussion to Wikidata property “software version”).
fantastic, thanks for the links!
Congrats on making an aesthetically pleasing site with no required (or even non-required!) 3rd party resources. I don’t have much use for the service itself, but I’ll definitely use this as an example of a well-built modern website!
Neat. :)
In the same vein, there’s https://release-monitoring.org/