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

  1. User makes a request in !meta@ponder.cat, and tags the relevant mod
  2. 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:

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)

    • bot@rss.ponder.catBEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      No commands found. Did you mean to send me RSS commands?

      Available commands:

      • /add {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Add a new RSS feed
      • /delete {rss_url} {community}@{instance} - Delete an existing RSS feed
      • /list {community}@{instance} - List all feeds for a community
      • /help - Show this help message

      You can include multiple commands in a single message, each on a new line.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catMEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I can’t decide between /list and !list as the command format. I think !list is a more standard format for bot interactions, but ! already means a community name, and the duplication is not ideal, so I went with /list. I keep typing !list though.

          • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I went through a similar chain of thoughts, I think this should work :)

            Another option is -list, but that might be more for command line flags