Re: Fedora/EPEL GitHub Badges

[Christopher]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM Avram Lubkin <aviso(a)rockhopper.net&gt; wrote:

>  Badges are pretty popular in GitHub though there don't seem to be
> many
>  that provide information on distros that have packages for a project. This
>  would be very useful because, at least for me, the first thing I do when I
>  want to try a new project is see if a package is available for the distro
>  I'm working with, usually Fedora or CentOS.
>
>  I searched around, but couldn't find anything that existed already (please
>  let me know if I missed it), so I made static badges for one of my
>  projects, python-enlighten[1], but this requires remembering to update them
>  when a new version of Fedora comes out.
>
>  I tried to create a dynamic one, but it isn't exactly what I want. It's
>  based on if a branch exists and starts with 'f' or 'e', not if there is
> a
>  stable package for that branch. Also, the branch names are not consistent
>  between EPEL 6 and EPEL 7, so it would be better to just get the number.
>  Might as well just use the number for Fedora too for consistency.
>
>  Static Fedora:
>  https://img.shields.io/badge/Fedora-26,_27-lightgrey.svg
>
>  Static EPEL:
>  https://img.shields.io/badge/EPEL-6,_7-lightgrey.svg
>
>
>  Dynamic Fedora:
>
>
> https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?uri=https://pdc.fedoraproje...
>  "f"))].name&label=Fedora
>
>  Dynamic EPEL:
>
>
> https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?uri=https://pdc.fedoraproje...
>  "e"))].name&label=EPEL
>
>  I'm also not sure the best place to point them to. shields.io does let
>  you set a target for both the left and the right sides, but I just set the
>  target within readme.rst and pointed both badges to the Bodhi updates page
>  for the package.
>
>  Anyone have a better way to generate dynamic badges? Should badge
>  generation be a part of the Fedora infrastructure?
>
>  For an alternative approach, would it be better to show the latest stable
>  version in the latest Fedora. Something like this, but dynamic:
>
>  https://img.shields.io/badge/Fedora_27-1.0.7-lightgrey.svg
>
>
>  [1] https://github.com/Rockhopper-Technologies/enlighten
>
>  
I would be very interested in this if it were dynamic. My preference would
be for a dynamic badge service which shows the latest stable `nevr` for
either a specific Fedora/EPEL, with the option to use keywords like
"latest" and "rawhide" in addition to specific releases like
"F27".
Upstream users could choose to add a Fedora 26 badge, a Fedora 27 badge,
and a Fedora Rawhide badge to advertise the available versions in each of
those, or they could just advertise the latest stable with a badge for the
latest released Fedora version.