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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] 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 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think it's a good idea. I want to make it possible for people to administer their own feeds, without creating spam, and I think having moderators able to add feeds to communities they moderate would be a good stepping stone.

How about adding a feature to let people write:

@[email protected] add https://some/feed !some_community@instance
@bot.rss.ponder.cat remove https://some/feed !some_community@instance

in DMs or comments, and control their subscriptions directly? I'm still not sure about letting them do that to create communities on rss.ponder.cat, but for communities they already moderate, it sounds like a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think that could work well!