Meta: Automate detection + build of new Foundry releases

[mr-bo-jangles]

Feature description

Timed builds, which track changes to https://foundryvtt.com/releases/ and look for new releases.

When a change is detected, a new build could be kicked off automatically as a release candidate using the previous build as a template, this would reduce the number of requests for new builds in the days to weeks following a new Foundry release.

Motivation

• For you to not need to spend time triggering the roll out of new release versions with little to no changes
• For me and others to get a RC image to play with when we mess up and upgrade early

Example

Currently there is a fresh version to deal with an exploit in the self-hosted provider. This has prompted a number of modules to force minimums of the new version. There are little to no changes for NodeJS based instances, but we're stuck unable to install modules until this is fixed.

Pitch

Optimizing the build pipelines of this project can't really go anywhere else.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[felddy]

I like this idea, and have thought about doing something like this. The first step was to find an API or other data source that has all the FoundryVTT releases. I haven't been able to find such a list. I was hoping the download page on foundryvtt.com made such a call to populate its drop-down list, but I think it is generated server-side.

This probably won't be too high of a priority feature request as there is a really good work-around already:

• What to do if a new version of FoundryVTT is released but the container hasn't been updated yet. #796

[mr-bo-jangles]

Idk if this is an isolated issue on my end, but whenever I've tried that workaround (which is great btw, not complaining), I end up with the software believing that it's version number is "undefined"?

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On Fri, 29 Sept 2023, 00:53 Mark Feldhousen, ***@***.***> wrote: I like this idea, and have thought about doing something like this. The first step was to find an API or other data source that has all the FoundryVTT releases. I haven't been able to find such a list. I was hoping the download page on foundryvtt.com made such a call to populate its drop-down list, but I think it is generated server-side. This probably won't be too high of a priority feature request as there is a really good work-around already: - #796 <#796> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#793 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACHF4SGFPZS2QC72UWS3ULX4YEZDANCNFSM6AAAAAA5LNRTCM> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>