[Fwd: New Upstream Release Monitoring Systems]

[Ankur Sinha]

A post on this would be awesome. I'll try and write one tomorrow.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
>  From: Ralph Bean 
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>  Subject: New Upstream Release Monitoring Systems
>  Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:36:11 -0500
>  
>  I'm proud to announce that the Infrastructure team has finished deploying the
>  first iteration of our replacement for the older, wiki-based Upstream Release
>  Monitoring tools this week.  You can read about the details of the trio of
>  systems[1] now used to coordinate upstream release monitoring on the same old
>  wiki page.
>  
>  Names of systems:
>  
>  - pkgdb is the familiar Fedora Package DB https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
>    It provides some flags used by the other systems.
>  - anitya is the web app running at https://release-monitoring.org
>    It is responsible for scraping upstream release sites looking for new
>    releases.
>  - the-new-hotness is a backend daemon that responds to fedmsg messages about
>    upstream releases.
>  
>  The bugs filed in bugzilla look much the same as they did before, but for
>  packagers there is one thing to note:  the process of getting your package(s)
>  registered for upstream release monitoring has changed.  Please see the
>  instructions[2] on the wiki page.
>  
>  Old packages that were listed on the wiki page have been imported to
>  release-monitoring.org and have had their monitoring flag set in pkgdb.  New
>  packages added to Fedora now have their monitoring flag set to True by default
>  and a script attempts to map them to an upstream project in
>  release-monitoring.org automatically.
>  
>  If you want new upstream releases monitored for your package(s), you must:
>  
>  - Add the upstream project to anitya[3].
>  - Map the upstream project to a Fedora package in anitya[3].
>  - Enable the monitoring flag for that Fedora package in pkgdb2[4].
>  
>  Note also that it is now possible to get notifications about upstream releases
>  without bugs being filed in bugzilla.  To do this, add your projects to
>  release-monitoring.org and configure your Fedora Notifications (FMN)[5] account
>  while leaving the monitor flag set to False in pkgdb[4].
>  
>  If you encounter bugs or have requests for enhancement, as always please do
>  file them[6][7][8].. and if you're having problems with a particular package
>  there is a place to list those[8] also on the wiki page.
>  
>  [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring#Details
>  [2]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring#TLDR.3B_Get_Pa...
>  [3] https://release-monitoring.org
>  [4] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb
>  [5] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/notifications
>  [6] https://github.com/fedora-infra/anitya
>  [7] https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2
>  [8] https://github.com/fedora-infra/the-new-hotness
>  [9] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upstream_release_monitoring#Requesting_Help
>  _______________________________________________ 
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Thanks,
Regards,
Ankur Sinha

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha