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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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by otter@lemmy.ca to c/meta@rss.ponder.cat

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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)

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 7 months 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:

@bot@rss.ponder.cat 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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think that could work well!

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

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