Ability to Watch a project but only for releases

I'm often interested in watching a project but I'm not really interested in all the conversations and issues it might have, I'm mostly interested in releases coming out. Would it be possible to have more options under the Watch project button?

I just sent this to support@ (Maybe this issue could be expanded to include mentioned subscriptions?)

Feature request: subscribe to any specific page of a project

As I mentioned, it'd be amazing to subscribe receive notifications of any page of a project. I'd personally love to subscribe to just releases &/or changelogs to many projects, for instance, but may want to even subscribe to any changes in, e.g., the skins subfolder.

Thanks for an amazing service! ☺

P.S.: I'll track this via https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/410 =)

Just received reply — here's hoping:

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015, 11:03 AM Ivan Žužak support@github.com wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion -- I've passed it along to the team working on notifications to consider.

Cheers,
Ivan

This would be a great feature.

Not only great, but required for some repos ;)

An RSS feed for subscribing to a project release would be really cool.

An RSS feed for subscribing to a project release would be really cool.

This is possible already. For example go to https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases, have a look in the html source of the page. Search for .atom and you will find urls to feeds:
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/releases.atom
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/tags.atom
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/commits/master.atom

So you get a feed with releases with a url like:
https://github.com/USER/REPO/releases.atom

Did also report this one to Github earlier last year 👍

👍 the Watch button should look like this :

Think one extra option between 'not watching' and 'watching' would be enough, something like 'only watch releases'.

This would be awesome. I always find myself going back to projects to check if there is a newer version.

This would be awesome. Something simple, like the "only watch releases" suggested above.

Would also love this. I'm currently using a separate service to watch the releases.atom folder and have that service e-mail me when it changes.

@StubbsPKS

@StubbsPKS For the record, what service do you use?

@TPS

@TPS If This, Then That. https://ifttt.com/

This would make GitHub even more awesome - if that is possible.. 😄

There's another service called ReleaseBell: https://releasebell.com/ , I haven't actually checked though, saw on awesome-selfhosted repository.

However, I still use my self-hosted tool, AlertHub, on a cheap VPS without issues: https://github.com/Ardakilic/alerthub . I get email and push notifications on the releases I set.

@Richard87

Why did you shut your service down before verifying its replacement's suitability, @Richard87??

Look at https://gitpunch.com/

I'm still using it for projects which use tags without GitHub Releases.

@core-code

@core-code You can run an existing feed with the RSS-Bridge Filter (as a rudimentary Yahoo pipe) to filter out the pre-releases.

My public rss-bridge server has the filter bridge enabled for eg: https://rss-bridge.bb8.fun/#bridge-Filter

As an example:

All Kubernetes releases
corresponding atom feed for all releases
Blocking regex: (beta|alpha) to block out the beta/alpha releases.
Final RSS Feed with filter applied: View as HTML, Atom

Edit: This is a hack. Would love if GitHub actually supported different release feeds.

@captn3m0

@captn3m0 this only works for repositories which consistently tag their pre-releases with "alpha" or "beta". the GitHub Atom feed doesn't even contain the information whether a release is a pre-release. therefore there is no general way to filter all pre-releases. a solution would entail GitHub adding the pre-release status annotation to the feed or creating additional feeds.

this is now available under watch -> custom -> releases

nice, but this doesn't address the Atom feed issue

@schrepfler

Really guys, please open a different issue, most of us are happy with this.

@schrepfler Pardon…?

It literally doesn't work. I have not got ONE release notification since Releaser closed down, despite the following being set:

@schrepfler

Really guys, please open a different issue, most of us are happy with this.

@schrepfler Pardon…?

It literally doesn't work. I have not got ONE release notification since Releaser closed down, despite the following being set:

Maybe it's something about how you perform the release. It works for me

This is not a new feature. It is available since November 2018

https://github.blog/changelog/2018-11-27-watch-releases/

As other people already pointed out, if you want further improvement you should reach out to GitHub Support or at least open a new issue here or post in the GitHub forum.

Continuing to post here well have zero effects. I'm going to unsubscribe from this issue now too.

Like @JamesTheAwesomeDude I'm really surprised by your last posts.

Concerning the little dozen of github repositories I follow:

I checked "Releases" for ages (via the GitHub button: Watch/Unwatch -> Custom -> Releases)
Nevertheless I don't receive regular e-mail notification about releases, whereas I receive many other mail notification from GitHub (for instance for the current discussion)

On the contrary, the alternative mentioned above (supplied by https://gitpunch.com/ ) is still working like a charm for me to get release notifications for GitHub projects, while I still wait for a working solution directly from GitHub.
That's why I was still interested in this discussion.

Really surprised... Maybe our posts here will have the effect to find what @JamesTheAwesomeDude, me (and others) could have in common to break this GitHub feature.

Thanks for your confirmation.

Edit. Even more surprising, I carefully checked my mails of the past years about notifications from the projects I follow:

as said above, no notifications at all from GitHub about releases that GitPunch gives me for most of them
but one project has the same notifications of releases from GitPunch and GitHub
and another one has only a subset notified by GitHub compared to all release notifications from GitPunch

Of course (I verified it once again) all of them have "Releases" checkbox enabled for GitHub notifications.

I've also noticed this is a broken feature. I've been watching several repos for Custom > Releases and never received a notification from GitHub on a new release being created, despite knowing they've all cut releases in the last month. Can other people speak to this feature actually working for them?

It was an issue with my configurations in Settings > Notifications > Watching.

yeah works fine here

For those of you having problems with this, have y'all verified that your various e-mail settings are correct under https://github.com/settings/notifications? Also, your e-mail account itself isn't spamming them? I, too have no problems, & am mystified whenever anyone complains here.…

@dimisjim

My apologies, @dimisjim . It was an issue with my configurations in Settings > Notifications > Watching.

Thanks for your help and patience. Hope that helps others as well.

@TPS

@TPS If This, Then That. https://ifttt.com/

Only if you want to pay $4/mo. for something GitHub should be doing itself.

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