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We’re slowly rolling out extra features that are enabled by installing the GitHub App (syncing state, CI status, author, assignee, labels) without needing repo scope, that’ll be free for open source repos and paid for private.

Didn’t expect to see this on HN news today, the homepage will be updated within the next day or two to explain the paid feature.


Agreed scrolling on mobile safari is borked, will definitely get that fixed up!

Privacy policy is at https://octobox.io/privacy


Presumably this somehow accesses Github and talks to it, shouldn't that data be mentioned in your Privacy Policy?


Oh yeah good catch, we’ll get that added


Octobox maintainer here, we’ve done a lot of work recently to make Octobox work better and fast for power users. I’ve heard that Shopify is using it to handle very high volumes of notifications and seem to be happy users.


Swift switched all their issue tracking to Jira a while back


We just launched this new podcast where we explore the technical details of package management, the stories and the history of various projects, and the communities around them too. Every two weeks there will be a brand new interview with a package manager maintainer.

First episode is an interview with Mike McQuaid, the lead maintainer of Homebrew.


It's in the works, very little documentation at the moment: https://github.com/dependencyci/dotyaml


Currently only supports GitHub but bitbucket and gitlab are on the todo list as well


Agreed, I'll definitely the ability to move your dependencyci.yml file into a .github folder like the issue and pull request templates: https://github.com/blog/2111-issue-and-pull-request-template...


beefsack is right, please do NOT make it a github specific thing. Just one config folder. All config files for services, integration, etc. should go there.

Thanks again!


Except this isn't GitHub specific.


How about .meta? Hopefully we can encourage github to support this, too. Maybe .meta/github/ could be a thing, too.


In the config.rc file you could call that folder however you want.

I personally do not like ".meta", because it is not clear what kind of information it may contain. "Meta" might be anything, documentation, description, website, design papers, everything is meta. It is a bit like using "Information" as a menu entry for a website.


It sounds like we should probably all get together and write a draft RFC for this. Choosing a good directory to toss everything into would be grand.

I'd prefer .well-known since there's already an RFC for it, but maybe .dev-extra would be more appropriate?


Do you really want to type either of those prefixes thousands of times? Brevity and lack of special chars in the name would be nice to have.


`.config` is probably a decent choice, as ~/.config for per-user settings seems to be gradually gaining adoption.


Or .well-known? (analogous to https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5785)


How about we put each individual config file in its own individual directory? We could name the directory after the file too, so that it is clear where each file is ;)

No but seriously, I don't think this mess of config files in the project root is really a big deal. I already grouped the interesting stuff under /src. If it is a big deal, then lets hash out an RFC that covers the general concept of "configuration" once and for all and be done with it.


What about /.bots or /.ci ? Those are specific to these types of services.


Will investigate that for you shortly, I've only just added support for gradle, might be skipping some sections of file


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