GitHub release notifications don't work

[yhoiseth]

Expected behaviour

Get notifications in GitHub with new releases. This is useful because I can check in a single location for updates to our dependencies.

Actual behaviour

Don't get notifications in GitHub with new releases.

Live demo with steps to reproduce

I don't think this is necessary.

Product version

Current repository.

Affected browser(s)

Not relevant.

Description

See comments in #7872. I contacted GitHub support:

Hi there Yngve,

Thanks for writing in about this.

It looks like the highcharts/highcharts repository is using tags[1] but not releases. We don't currently send release notifications for tags, even with "Watching releases" enabled.

I'm going to note this down as a feature request for team that worked on the new notifications option. I can't promise if or when such a feature might make an appearance but your feedback is in good hands!

Thanks,
Steve

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-tags/

Hi,

I'm "watching releases" for https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts.

I didn't receive a notification for Highcharts v7.0.3 on https://github.com/notifications. Do you know why?

Kind regards,
Yngve Høiseth

CC @stevecat

[TorsteinHonsi]

Thanks for reporting!

It's true that we are not using GitHub releases.

The zip packages available on https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/releases are more than just the builds, in fact it does not contain the builds, only source code and tools.

Closer to our releases would be the distributed code on https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts-dist/releases.

But this also doesn't contain examples and other stuff from our zip packages as available at https://www.highcharts.com/blog/download/.

@cvasseng Maybe we should check out if we can either hide this from GitHub or do it properly?

[yhoiseth]

I asked Django about the same thing. Linking it here because their tracker isn't integrated.

[bre1470]

@cvasseng @TorsteinHonsi We could add for each new major version an entry that explains, where to find the resources and packages, and point out the nature of the repository and zip package.

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