Thanks for sharing your tool! I also considered implementing such a tool, but ultimately decided against it for a number of reasons:
1. I think that infrastructure which the pkg-go team critically and very visibly depends on should eventually be hosted by DSA under debian.org. I don’t see them hosting this special “workaround” service, when there already is infrastructure in place to run uscan. 2. I have concerns regarding the scalability of such a service if we actually adopted this approach: the GitHub quota permits 5000 requests per hour (when authenticated). This sounds like a lot at first glance, but consider that we already have 845 Go packages. Your code does 4 requests per repository (IIUC), so already we are fairly close to reaching the limit, if we don’t take any precautions. Most likely, point ② could be addressed with some careful limiting on our end, and changing the processing model from generating a response upon end-user request to iterating through all Go packages in Debian and querying GitHub in a rate-limited fashion. This significantly complicates the program, though, to the point where we duplicate the logic behind the Debian Package Tracker. Worse, it introduces accidental complexity, not inherent complexity :). Hence, I think extending uscan is a much much more elegant route to achieve our goal, and I’d like to ask people to hold off providing/using custom services as a stop-gap measure. Thanks! On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Shengjing Zhu <i...@zhsj.me> wrote: > Hi all, > > I spent some time playing around GitHub api, and results a small tool, > https://github.com/zhsj/git-watch > > I didn't implement it in uscan. But it can work well with uscan. > > A demo service is at https://watch.zhsj.me/ > > Take one of packages I maintained, > https://tracker.debian.org/golang-github-xiaq-persistent > https://watch.zhsj.me/github/xiaq/persistent is the watch url. > And the following d/watch works fine, > > version=4 > opts="filenamemangle=s%(?:.*?)?([^/]*)\.tar\.gz%golang-githu > b-xiaq-persistent-$1.tar.gz%" > \ > https://watch.zhsj.me/github/xiaq/persistent \ > (?:.*?/)?([^/]*)\.tar\.gz > > This tool works both as web service and cli. > > I hope you find this tool useful. > > Yours, > Shengjing Zhu > -- Best regards, Michael