cuppa

cuppa

Comprehensive Upstream Provider Polling Assistant

Motivation

As a package maintainer, it's a challenging task to keep track of every new release of a piece of software. Usually this involves subscribing to mailing lists, signing up for notifications from FOSS portals like Github, or even subscribing to news sites. For a distro, this might also mean a repeated effort amongst its package maintainers. The inefficiency and time requirements of such an approach is inevitable. This has led several distros to create their own upstream tracking platforms to automate the process of tracking upstream releases. However, these platforms are often distro specific, leading to further duplication of effort between distros.

Goals

• Support as many upstream providers as possible
• Be completely distro agnostic
• Extensibility
• A+ Rating on Report Card

Progress

Supported Providers

• CPAN
• Github (with API Key support)
• GNOME
• Hackage
• Jetbrains
• Launchpad
• PyPi
• RubyGems

Planned Providers

• BitBucket
• FTP
• Git
• GitLab

Stretch Goal Providers

• RSS
• Sourceforge

Both of these will require some level of scraping to get useful info.

Unsupported Providers

• NPM Completely pointless as this will just pivot to another provider
• Stackage Not really in scope for this project and they seem to be missing a web API

Configuration

Github Personal Access Keys

Github limits the number of requests per day for unauthenticated clients. If you would like to get around this limitation, you can configure Cuppa to use a Personal Access Key (PAK).

Example:

[github]
key = "<personal access key>"

License

Copyright 2016-2018 Bryan T. Meyers bmeyers@datadrake.com

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.