I like that the name can be a pun, "Updated-itis: a disease where the afflicted person cannot help but check hourly whether all of their software is up-to-date"
Of course, anyone that knows what the suffix "-itis" is for will be cringing. It always has bugged me when people use "-itis"-- your [insert thing here] is not inflamed ;)
I thought of making a similar service, but with the option to upload a package manager config file. scenario: I have project A and B, with some dependencies. I upload the files, and I get a weekly digest "project A: updates for django, userena, taggit, jquery, zurb foundation. project B: django, zurb foundation" or similar. Have you thought of implementing it?
I have almost finished the ability to add custom projects (within reason). Perhaps I could then implement a service which auto-detects packages. So, user Bob creates a repo in github. He adds a file in the root called packages.json which contains a list of the packages he is using. He then adds his repo to updateditis.com. Updateditis periodically checks his packages.json file and if it detects a change in one of the packages versions, it emails Bob saying "For project XYZ, the package ABC has been updated to version 1.2.3, you should consider updating it."
Well that should be possible too. However if you add a package later, it would be easier to edit your own package file then to log back in to updateditis and re-upload a package file. Automatic for the people
yes, but IMO it should be provided as a feature, not as a requirement. I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer general solutions to 'github extensions', as when you host projects elswhere all those useful tools become simply worthless. especially that using a package manager and using github isn't necessarily tied together.
Cool idea, similar to what I had in mind using Git's tagging system when I built http://hubnotify.com. Are you using any repo or is the version just in a local database?
Nice site!
Currently tracking the version in a local database and checking for changes hourly via cron. I've half implemented checking github repo's but its not 100% accurate yet. Not sure how you are doing it but I am going to focus on an update being any change to a branch. So its basically tracking branches only.
No plans for an api as such yet. Although I might add in the ability to change the notification type. Options would be a push url, sms, jabber notification and anything else that might be useful.