Bug 15925

Summary:	[Website] RSS / Atom support to be notified about the next tags version ?
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Fred_busybox <dark_footix>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description Fred_busybox 2024-01-21 20:28:40 UTC

Hello Busybox,

I am impatient about waiting for the next tag of busybox.

I was looking for a way to be notified when the next tag will be available, but I can't find a method to track the evolution of this webpage https://git.busybox.net/busybox/refs/tags 

I tried to find RSS or Atom feed, but I failed.
I tried to create an automatic feed on https://git.busybox.net/busybox/refs/tags  with https://feedmix.novaclic.com/, but I failed too.

It seems the website is in cgit, and cgit would have the option to enable to propose an RSS URL, could it be enable?

Or is there an easier way?

Thank you 
Frederic

Comment 1 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer 2024-02-13 18:06:27 UTC

Hi!

As far as i can see cgit does not support generating atoms for refs/tags (yet).

As you probably have seen, you can have atoms for the _commits_ of an individual branch or tag:
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/atom?h=refs/tags/v1.2.3

But you want something like:
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/atom?h=refs/tags

[gives Invalid branch: refs/tags]

It tries to treat refs/tags as a branch to read commits off, or something like that. I would suggest that you look at cgit and maybe propose a patch to support what you ask for?

Short of (proper) cgit support for atom feeds of tags, the busybox-cvs mailing-list does see mails that stem from tagging; e.g.:
http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox-cvs/2023-January/041372.html

I do not know offhand if we still pipe commits (and thus new tags) to the buildroot IRC channel. If we do, then you might use those as an alternative to the -cvs ML mentioned above.

HTH