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Artifact ID: | 5dab74cbe4ceed2dcf7aff82269547a4665f3d6d |
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Page Name: | Autoupdate |
Date: | 2015-03-21 01:03:41 |
Original User: | mario |
Mimetype: | text/x-markdown |
Parent: | 07e0001824f63e15c0a3b7a4dfb170b11c9233e1 (diff) |
Next | e36079d2834cfb2755746c9e18c5968f765d3ebf |
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Don't call us, we call you
freshcode.club can automate your release announcements. After submitting the initial project description, one of the update modules can be used.
releases.json
coherent |
With a simple JSON format, a complete project release history can be kept. It's the most robust and detailed option to automate announcements. |
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Changelog
simple |
Using an existing Changelog / News.txt file is often possible. It just needs coherent formatting and plain text or Markdown or RST syntax and structure. |
versatile |
Screen scraping is an unsuspectedly simple way to extract changelogs from project websites. Simple rule sets allow using XPath or jQuery selectors and/or narrowing it down with regular expressions. |
GitHub
convenient |
Projects on Github can be automatically queried for tagged /releases. As unlovely fallback a commit log will substitute and be condensed into a change summary. |
Sourceforge
testing</s> |
Sourceforge projects can use their news/blog for announcing releases. Any post containing a version number in the title is assumed to be a changelog. (Sf.net is still home to many projects). |
Launchpad
testing</s> |
LaunchPad projects will be queried per API. It strictly depends on a populated release_notes entry.
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In conjunction to that, all project listings support $version
placeholders in URLs already, alleviating some manual editing.
And if preferred, there is even the Freecode JSON API and a freshcode-submit
command-line utility.
Regardless of the source used, a user-oriented writing style for release notes is most important. Developer and version control commit logs don't usually convey new features and their significance.