Tagging Latest Release on Github

["Colin H. Mason" <ch...@misi.tech>]

Hello,

I am attempting to develop a way to automatically download the latest release of Apache Nifi whenever deploying the service via Ansible. I discovered that the common way to do this is by copying the link to the "latest release" button on GitHub. Many repositories tag their latest release as the "latest release" allowing for a unique URL that automatically links to the latest release. I also discovered that there is a GitHub Releases API that can be implemented to accomplish this. However, I've noticed that the apache/nifi GitHub repository does not do either of these and so I am writing this email to request one of these implementations. I believe it would be useful to many developers out there looking to automate the deployment of Nifi and thus is worth doing. Below are the GitHub links I used as reference:

Tagging Latest Release: https://docs.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/linking-to-releases

GitHub Releases API: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/repos#releases

Thank you,
Colin


Colin Mason

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