gimme

Gimme is end user software management for open source software. Created from a frustration of being blind to new releases for open source software that we like to use.

Here's an illustration of pre-gimme times...

1. You find awesome-opensource-software and it fits your need
2. You download the latest release of awesome-opensource-software (which doesn't have any published packages in package managers, or you want to be on the latest release without relying on package maintainers)
3. A week later, a new release of awesome-opensource-software comes out... but you didn't know that
4. More time passes, and more releases are published... still you don't know
5. Now you are running outdated (possibly insecure) software, all out of the "install-and-forget" pattern that OSS can introduce

Life with gimme...

1. You find awesome-opensource-software and it fits your need
2. You star awesome-opensource-software on GitHub
3. You download the latest release of awesome-opensource-software
4. A week later, a new release of awesome-opensource-software comes out... and you run gimme get updates and notice there is a new release
5. You get the latest release for awesome-opensource-software

Installation

Gimme is released as both a bin (Download here) and a Docker image.

Bin

1. Download the latest gimme release from GitHub
2. Extract the tarball
3. Copy/move the gimme bin to a location in your $PATH (e.g. /usr/local/bin)

Container

Note: this requires Docker to be installed locally

Run the following:

$ docker run --rm -it \
    -e GIMME_GITHUB_TOKEN \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    gimmepm/gimme get updates --since=-3days

Configuration

Gimme requires a GitHub access token to make API calls. You can retrieve this by doing the following:

1. Navigate your browser to GitHub
2. Go into Settings
3. Click Developer settings
4. Go into Personal access tokens
5. Create a new token (requires no special access, just create the token)

You can either pass this token into gimme with the --token param, or you can set the GIMME_GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable to this token (recommended).

Usage

Get all updates in the past day

$ gimme get updates --since=-1days

Get all repos that you have starred

$ gimme get repos

Future/roadmap

• Caching on the local machine
• Updates since last retrieval
• Custom manipulation (add or delete) of watches repositories
• Support GitLab repos
• Automated install, update, and delete of the software