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+I maintain a number of packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR). In this post
+I describe how I use the RSS reader service, Feedbin, to stay on top of updates
+so that users of my packages don't need to flag the package out of date when
+new versions are released.
+
+One of the many reasons that makes using Arch Linux a pleasure is the Arch User
+Repository (AUR). The AUR allows users to contribute the scripts (`PKGBUILD`)
+to build a package installable by the system package manager `pacman`. The
+benefit installing software this was, is that all files are tracked, it's
+easily uninstallable, dependencies can be expressed and installed when needed,
+and you end up helping the community by making it easier for other to install
+software.
+
+When I encounter some software that is not yet packaged in the main repos or
+AUR I'll often create an AUR package for it. In doing so I become the
+maintainer of that package and am responsible for keeping it up to date. At the
+time of writing I currently maintain 12 packages.
+
+When a new version of the upstream software is release the AUR package needs
+to be updated. It would be tiresome to have to repeatedly visit the source repository of every
+project to check for new releases. Fortunately there's a solution to this
+problem that has been around for a long time: RSS. RSS lets you subscribe to a
+feed then your feed read checks for new entries and shows them. All you have to
+do is check on your feed reader periodically.
+
+A perhaps little known fact is that there is an Atom feed for the releases of
+every GitHub project. The URL is that of the release page with `.atom`
+appended. E.g. <https://github.com/wezm/titlecase/releases.atom>
+
+My feed reader of choice is [Feedbin]. Feedbin is a hosted feed reader that
+is supported by a number of number of clients. The code to Feedbin is open
+source but I happily pay the $5/month knowing that I'm helping support it
+and know that my data is not being sold on. (Feedbin's privacy policy is tiny)
+
+Since the majority of projects that I am packaging are hosted on GitHub I can
+subscribe to the releases of each one in Feedbin. I tag them all with "Releases".
+
+https://feedbin.com/privacy-policy

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+title: Using Feedbin to Maintain AUR Packages
+extra: TODO
+kind: article
+section: technical
+created_at: 2018-06-02 08:10:00.000000000 +10:00
+keywords:
+- arch
+- linux
+- rss
+- feedbin
+- aur
+short_url: