I'm thinking of making simple mechanism that checks current core version of elgg and notifies admin in admin panel, that new version is available. Nothing too fancy, but encouragement to upgrade to the new version (why upgrade when everything works...).
I'm not aware of any existiong api to check current version of Elgg. I'm inspired here by Zend Framework that has even special class for version checking. We could think of:
I'm leaning towards making sth using github api, but "recommended" version would make things easier when it comes to handling RC versions and separate branches. We could utilize community page REST API for this, though it seems overkill for that simple task. Any better ideas?
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You must log in to post replies.i imagine that extending this plugin would be the quickest way to create the changes and include an automated cron system: http://community.elgg.org/plugins/839678/1.8.2/elgg-update-services
thanks for the link, i was looking for such plugin some time ago to see if smb was working on it, but didn't find it. but i'll focus on instant display in admin panel than notification on email. it's secondary job for me. anyway i'll write it from scratch to include as pull request to the core.
btw, i can't use capital letters in tinymce on my mobile phone, strange...
Almost ready version without notifications: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/pull/480
In the meantime I've ported pending pull request as the plugin.