classicvalues / track-website-changes

Track some websites (usually component version updates)

A repository tracking some websites' updates

In Git for Windows, we bundle a few components with the installer. To stay on top of those updates, we have a GitHub workflow that opens a new ticket whenever a new version of one of those components was released.

This serves us really well for those projects that announce new versions via RSS/Atom feeds, explicitly or implicitly (publishing a tag on GitHub does this implicitly).

However, for the less and PCRE2 components, this is not possible. PCRE2 does not even announce new versions via any feed, and less announces on its home page whether a published release is meant for public consumption or for beta testing.

Hence this repository.

It's heart is a GitHub workflow that monitors the websites, and when they change, figures out via pattern matching what the newest release is, opening a new ticket if there isn't one about that release yet.

To make sure that the website is not downloaded (and parsed) over and over again, a copy of the contents is committed and pushed (hence the need for a separate repository). That allows us to only download the contents if they have changed, by sending a HEAD request and comparing the Last-Modified header.