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GitHub provides an RSS feed for all user-facing changes made on the platform

154 points| robinhood | 8 years ago |blog.github.com | reply

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[+] robinhood|8 years ago|reply
I wish more companies were doing this. What could be the factor that would prevent all companies to do the same, apart from laziness? Am I the only one interested by the changes that are made on the tools that I like? I'm the kind of guy who reads all release notes.
[+] itsderek23|8 years ago|reply
A lightweight approach we've started at my company:

1. Create a GitHub Repo dedicated to user-facing issues (https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap)

2. Customers can subscribe to issues they are interested.

3. When resolving an issue, we reference it in the git commit, which closes the issue and notifies the issue subscribers.

We're a developer tool, so it's a familar flow for our customers.

[+] colemickens|8 years ago|reply
I wish we could subscribe to Pubsubhubbub notifications without needing to register a webhook. Or rather without needing admin privileges to the repo... At least if it's public.

As far as I know, it's not like the pushed notifications include data that isn't available via painful and expensive /scraping. And with PuSH, there could be third party hubs.

I guess I've answered my own questions. Is anyone aware of folks running PuSH hubbubs for GH repos and letting other folks publicly freely subscribe to those notifications? If not, maybe a new item to add to my list...

[+] u801e|8 years ago|reply
We use Github Enterprise at my workplace, and I actually subscribe to each organization's RSS feed and get updates on when pull requests are opened, commits are pushed, etc. Though there are some events that aren't published (like pull request review events).
[+] derefr|8 years ago|reply
Is this the source stream that gets turned into the GitHub BigQuery public dataset?
[+] dethos|8 years ago|reply
This is really nice!

Will take this idea/example into consideration for some of my projects.

[+] cJ0th|8 years ago|reply
always happy to see rss support! :)