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Bug#1116966: webhook (or similar) from browse.dgit.debian.org

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Hello,

On Wed 01 Oct 2025 at 02:07pm +02, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>
>> Package: dgit-infrastructure
>> Version: 13.13
>>
>> Simon Josefsson writes ("webhook from browse.dgit.debian.org?"):
>>> Hi.  I'm playing with the idea of a Debian Blend that build and publish
>>> packages directly from git in CI/CD, based on sources on
>>> browse.dgit.debian.org.  I think most things are feasible to implement,
>>> but getting notifications of new uploads is a tricky concern.  Is it
>>> possible to setup a webhook from when browse.dgit.debian.org gets a new
>>> version of a package somehow?  Maybe other services will need this too,
>>> so you may want to design a generic mechanism.  Or is there one already?
>>
>> How exciting!
>>
>> We should definitely have a way to support this.
>>
>> I'm not sure a webhook is right, We would need to maintain a
>> subscriber list, and it might get rather long.
>>
>> Perhaps we should send updates to a mailing list.  Email already has
>> retries, subscription management, and so on.  We could use
>> debian-*-changes, but that might be controversial (and we'd need to
>> figure out *which* list to post to).  Or we could have a new list.
>
> E-mail is okay, but it is not synchronous.  A separate mailing list
> seems fine, and I think everything going into browse.dgit.debian.org
> could be posted to the same (new) list, using some standardized
> machine-readable format.
>
> Long-term, I think I would prefer something synchronous instead, but
> this is really not an urgent request, mostly a question if there already
> exists some method to get notifications of new tag2upload tags somehow.

I think the biggest issue is maintaining a list of subscribers.
dgit.debian.org doesn't have readwrite access other than through SSH.
So either we implement some subscribing and unsubscribing mechanism
accessible to DDs via SSH (urgh), or a whole new web interface for doing
it.  Neither are very palatable.

Whereas if we use a mailing list then this problem is solved for us.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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Bug#1116966: webhook (or similar) from browse.dgit.debian.org Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-10-01 14:00 +0200
  Bug#1116966: webhook (or similar) from browse.dgit.debian.org Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> - 2025-10-01 14:10 +0200
    Bug#1116966: webhook (or similar) from browse.dgit.debian.org Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-10-01 14:20 +0200
    Bug#1116966: webhook (or similar) from browse.dgit.debian.org Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-10-02 13:50 +0200

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