How many times did you receive an issue about a bug already fixed in a new release? How many times your customers fix a bug on their side when they could enjoy the latest version with official bug fixes and new features? Discussing with some developers, they asked me: “How can we know when a new release of <amazing-Akeneo-package> is published?”. Akeneo It’s pretty simple, as GitHub dispatch events for every action done into a repository or an organization.. so I’ve built a minimalist bot in 2 hours that provide the feature for free, because I love open source you know :) TweetHub logo Tell me more! Sure, you need to get the archive from and an environment that supports PHP with installed: . releases page Composer you won’t have to know PHP Then install dependencies using Composer: , this will create a folder and configure the class autoloader. composer install vendor Then copy/paste the distributed file and fill it with Twitter credentials (to get credentials, you have to register a new on Twitter). .env.dist application Finally, host the PHP script on any server that allows a public access from outside (for instance on ), and register the : Heroku GitHub webhook Protip: select only “ ” events to not spam your PHP script for nothing Release And here you go! Amazing, right? What’s the f*ck is this @ expression in your Twitter message? Well, the I’ve created allows the access to every data contained by the from GitHub API (you only need to use Camel case instead of Snake case). You can find the list of available properties in the I use to map GitHub Json responses to a developer-readable Release object. MicroEngine class Release object PHP project In my case, retrieves the property from GitHub release, i.e the release HTML page url! @htmlUrl html_url I want to contribute! Please don’t. For real I don’t have too much time to spend on this kind of baby project, I encourage you to fork it and have fun with it like I had :) Happy coding everyone! PS: If you have something to share, feel free to do it here, on GitHub or Twitter ;)

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