Subject: [alpine-devel] Publishing releases

From: "V.Krishn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 20:28:29 +0530

Got the idea from kernel.org

Why not have
https://www.alpinelinux.org/releases.json

The fields in json file can be ones as seen on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_Linux (right Infobox).

Also if possible
https://www.alpinelinux.org/distrowatch.json

Since there is no standard on this yet additional fields may be added.
(or is there a standard on it ?)
I think other distros should also do it.

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Regards.
V.Krishn

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From: Natanael Copa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 20:19:03 +0200

On Thu, 23 May 2013 20:28:29 +0530

> https://www.alpinelinux.org/releases.json

we have http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/.latest.x86.txt

its not json but the same idea.

might be an idea to switch to json yes

-nc

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From: "V.Krishn" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 01:05:06 +0530

> we have http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/.latest.x86.txt

Info here is very basic, more suitable for mirroring server scripts but not 
for aggregators/publishers.

> might be an idea to switch to json yes

If published in this format, maybe a script could be done for wikipedia which 
auto-updates the webpages' infobox text or atleast notifies new release.
I am not sure how it is done presently.

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V.Krishn

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