Matrix Releasetracker

For more information, questions, or just the use of the hosted version, you can visit #releasetracker:kittenface.studio.

Usage

The tracked repositories can be configured in multiple ways.

Bot-command

Send the message !github <username> to the bot. This would track all repositories starred by the defined user.

State event

A more fine-grained approach is to save the tracked entities in the room state of a room you share with the bot. Send a state event (e.g. via Element with /devtools) containing all the things you want to track. These can be easily updated with another state event.

Example state event for advanced tracking;

{
  "type": "dev.ananace.ReleaseTracker",
  "sender": "@ace:kittenface.studio",
  "content": {
    "type": "m.text", // m.notice by default
    "tracking": [
      // GitHub repositories;
      "github:r/vector-im/element-web",
      "github:r/matrix-org/synapse",

      // GitHub group;
      "github:g/netbox-community",

      // GitHub user (all starred repositories)
      "github:u/ananace",

      // GitLab(.com) repository;
      "gitlab:r/mb-saces/synatainer",
      // GitLab(.com) group;
      "gitlab:g/mb-saces",
      // GitLab(.com) user stars; (with a token for if the tracker doesn't have one configured)
      "gitlab:access_token@u/mb-saces",

      // GitLab (self-hosted) repository;
      "gitlab://dev.funkwhale.audio/r/funkwhale/funkwhale",
      // GitLab (self-hosted) user stars; (with a token for if the tracker doesn't have one configured)
      "gitlab://[email protected]/u/user",
      "gitlab://<user>:[email protected]/u/user",

      // Gitea repository;
      "gitea://git.example.com/r/user/repository",
      // Gitea user stars; (with a token for if the tracker doesn't have one configured)
      "gitea://[email protected]/u/user",

      // Bare git repo;
      "git+https://user:[email protected]/private/repo",
      "git+https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools",
      "git+ssh://[email protected]/wireguard-tools",
      "git://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-tools"
    ]
  },
  "state_key": "",
  "origin_server_ts": 1657845040362,
  "event_id": "$Of010lcT1D19peJ9pZFAN4vV6dYwlAXtVYg_0rGSESs",
  "room_id": "!YcpuFlnupDnkbqHuKU:example.com"
}

Installation

The bin/tracker binary will track and post updates on new GitHub releases, it requires a releasetracker.yml configuration file that it can read and write to.

Example releasetracker.yml config-file:

---
:backends:
- :access_token: 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 # GitHub access token - needs the public_repo scope
  # also acceptable are a :login, :password combination - or :client_id, :client_secret for OAuth - without GraphQL support
  # It's also possible to skip the authentication entirely, to run with heavily reduced limits and only REST API functionality
  :type: github
- :type: gitlab
- :type: gitea
- :type: git
:client:
  :hs_url: https://matrix.org
  :access_token: <token>
:database:
  # Will default to sqlite stored in database.db in the working-directory
  :connection_string: sqlite://database.db

A more fully featured configuration example can be seen in releasetracker.yml.example

Systemd

Example systemd unit:

# ~/.config/systemd/user/matrix-releasetracker.service
[Unit]
Description=Release tracker for Matrix

[Service]
Type=simple
WorkingDirectory=/opt/matrix-releasetracker
ExecStart=/bin/bash -lc 'bundle exec bin/tracker'
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

Docker-compose

You can use the image from Dockerhub. Example docker-compose.yml

version: "3.7"
services:
  matrix-release-tracker:
    restart: "unless-stopped"
    image: "ananace/matrix-releasetracker:latest"
    volumes:
      - "./releasetracker.yml:/app/releasetracker.yml"

TODO

Write a whole bunch of tests
Expose configuration for allowed release types (lightweight tag, signed tag, pre-release, full release, etc)
Handle multiple releases in a short period (between two ticks) more gracefully
Implement bot-like bang commands to act on the configuration
Handle PGP signatures better, don't just print the signature