Astral - Organize Your GitHub Stars With Ease

[A Former User]

@thetomester13 Oh wow yeah a webhook could be excellent. I do really like Astral but I suppose I misunderstood what it was. My ideal situation I guess is to have a third party app watch specific repos for releases and allow you to tag and organize them without needing to have a GitHub account. That way I could finally ditch my GitHub account and still watch repos. Maybe thats a path ReleaseBell can take? Or perhaps thats too big of an ask as it would create too much overlap between these apps. Either way this is just me throwing my ideal use case out into the ether.

[girish]

@thetomester13 said in Astral - Organize Your GitHub Stars With Ease:

I'm curious what you see in the way of ideas for ReleaseBell

I think a UI which would help navigating stars would be nice to have. And also add some note per repo. Ideally, we can contribute to astral itself but it's PHP and we don't have expertise to contribute there, so we can probably enhance release bell instead. It's just some simple UI changes where it's not just "notification" focused and also not tied to github as such.

[thetomester13]

@atrilahiji I've never thought about 'not needing Github', as much of a privacy nut as I consider myself, Github is still integral to the dev world as I see it. How else would you contribute back to these projects if it weren't for a Github username?

@girish Astral already provides notes per repo which is nice (though I mainly use simple tagging). I do agree though that there might be some 'middle-ground' solution where it's not just notification based and not explicitly tied to Github (off the top of my head, both Github and Gitlab - and probably other Git apps - have repo-based RSS feeds which could make for another input). I'm having a hard time envisioning exactly what that would look like, but I'm happy to help contribute where needed!

[marcusquinn]

@thetomester13 GitLab repo Pull mirroring is one possible solution.

I'm all for privacy but in many cases, where something has critical mass, the next best alternative for me is not to give them everything, just the absolute bare minimum, so they only have a fragment of a view of my total online footprint.

[A Former User]

@marcusquinn yeah my process for these things is to make emails specifically for those to filter email spam. Cloudron makes that easy and I don’t have an external email service set up so setup is minimal

[A Former User]

@thetomester13 Fair enough. I guess what I want is something that does both what Astral and ReleaseBell does with the option to use a GitHub token or just links.

I'd made it as I am definitely able to. But I have a lot on my plate rn

[thetomester13]

I've completed the tests for the app and created a Merge Request here so we can hopefully make this a stable app! Open to updates to the tests.

cc @girish @nebulon

[girish]

@thetomester13 awesome, will get it out and mark the app as stable then.

[thetomester13]

@girish thanks! Really appreciate your help again with the tests the other day. Turns out one issue is that when a test doesn't exit properly, the next time you run a test it opens up another Chrome instance which messed with the profiles. Also, as I'm sure you saw in the tests, I had to requery for the input box after typing in the test tag name and before hitting Enter (also the submit form didn't work as expected).

Anyway, glad to see another one in the books! Looking forward to scoping out the next one

[thetomester13]

The author also just linked to the Cloudron App Store version in their README for a 1-Click install!

[girish]

@thetomester13 That's great, thank a lot!