Hi, I wrote: > I wonder if Fedora or Debian offer something similar.
Fedora's bots listen to a RabbitMQ message bus for news of software releases from Anitya at https://release-monitoring.org. ‘Anitya is a release monitoring project. ‘Its goal is to regularly check if a project has made a new release. When Anitya discovers a new release for a project, it publishes a RabbitMQ message via fedora messaging. This makes it easy to integrate with Anitya and perform actions when a new release is created for a project. For example, the Fedora project runs a service called the-new-hotness which files a Bugzilla bug against a package when the upstream project makes a new release. ‘Anitya provides a user-friendly interface [for us plebs] to add, edit, or browse projects.’ ― https://release-monitoring.org/static/docs/index.html nmh isn't in its list, though it offers various back-ends for scraping URLs with a regexp fallback option. David obviously knows when the Fedora package needs updating, but perhaps other services listen to Anitya too. -- Cheers, Ralph.
