GitHub Services going away

[pauamma]

(aka, the thing that lets us do changelog posts and a few other things, like - I believe - the autoclaiming thing)

https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/

What should replace it for us? Or should there be a bug for it?

h/t: the warning at the bottom of recent changelog entries.

Comments

[kareila]

My recollection is that the claim bot code already uses web hooks, but I don't know how the changelog posting was configured.

[pauamma]

https://github.com/dreamwidth/dw-free/issues/2383 (judging by the warning at the bottom of each changelog entry, it still uses GitHub services).

[steve98052]

If the question is about how to deal with an adverse change in Github, would Bitbucket solve the problem? The book I used to learn git recommended Bitbucket over Github, but I'm not sure whether the book's reason for that would apply to Dreamwidth development.

[pauamma]

OTTOMH, that would depend on whether it's more work to:

- reimplement whatever needs to be using the "new and improved" Github features that will replace Github Services,

- or change everything to use whichever equivalent services Bitbucket provides, if any (and there's a lot to be changed, including editing the dev-docs sections of the wiki that reference Github, which is a lot of them).

I have not investigated the issue in any depth, and have no idea which solution is more work, but I think it's nowhere near a foregone conclusion in favor of Bitbucket.

[jazzyjj]

I just joined this comm so please forgive me if I'm repeating something here. But does this mean that the Dream Hacks will no longer be valid? I'm starting to do some research into website development. A neighbor wants me to be the co-owner of a cooking business which he is starting up, and one thing he wants me to do is create a website. I chose Dreamwidth as a possible platform for our site, because I love it here.

[pauamma]

Welcome to dw_dev. No, as far as I know, dreamhacks are not going away. What is currently missing (but could return - there's a bug filed for that) is posting changes to the dreamwidth source code to changelog.