Anitya is a release monitoring project.
Its goal is to regularly check if a project has made a new release. Originally developed within Fedora, the project created tickets on the Fedora bugzilla when a new release is available. Now this service has been split into two parts:
- anitya: find and announce new releases
- the new hotness: listens to the fedmsg bus, opens a ticket on bugzilla for packages allowing for it and triggers a scratch-build of the new version
Anitya provides a user-friendly interface to add or edit projects. New releases are announced on fedmsg and notifications can then be sent via FMN (the FedMsg Notifications service).
- Github page
Anitya is built using python2.x. The following steps all are setup using virtualenv having python2.x.
Note: The project will not work with python3 (yet.)
Here are some preliminary instructions about how to stand up your own instance of anitya. We'll use a virtualenv and a sqlite database and we'll install our dependencies from the Python Package Index (PyPI). None of these are best practices for a production instance, but they will do for development.
First, set up a virtualenv:
$ sudo yum install python-virtualenv
$ virtualenv anitya-env --system-site-packages
$ source anitya-env/bin/activateIssuing that last command should change your prompt to indicate that you are operating in an active virtualenv.
Next, install your dependencies:
(anitya-env)$ pip install -r requirements.txtCreate the database, by default it will be a sqlite database located at /var/tmp/anitya-dev.sqlite:
(anitya-env)$ python createdb.pyIf all goes well, you can start a development instance of the server by running:
(anitya-env)$ python runserver.pyOpen your browser and visit http://localhost:5000 to check it out.
To build the Docker image:
$ cd anitya/
$ docker build --tag=anitya .To run the container:
$ docker run -d -p 5000:5000 anitya