Tracking upstream projects

Tracking Upstream

FEver

You can use PackageMaintainers/FEver - Fedora upstream tracking system.

File releases

• SourceForge projects: use the "Monitor" link (envelope icon) in project summary pages' file listings
• freshmeat.net project releases: use the "Subscribe to new releases" link at the bottom of project pages
• CPAN updates: WWW , RSS feed , mailing list
• GNOME projects: RSS feed , FTP release mailing list
• freedesktop.org projects: FTP release mailing list

Security

• Buqtraq, Full Disclosure, Vuln'Watch etc: mailing lists , feeds

Other distributions

Useful for cross-checking fixes etc.

• Many distros: http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/distro-patches
• Ubuntu: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/hardy-changes
• Debian: http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
• Debian: http://patch-tracking.debian.net/package/<packagename> - series style patches
• Gentoo: http://packages.gentoo.org/, http://viewcvs.gentoo.org/
• FreeBSD: http://www.freshports.org/

General

• ChangeDetection can be used to track any page for changes: http://www.changedetection.com/monitor.html
• Bookmarklet for most browsers (Konqueror users, add this to Tools-> Minitools)

javascript:void(window.location='http://www.changedetection.com/detect.html?url='+escape(window.location)+'&email='+escape('your@email.here'))

(I couldn't convince Wiki to make a right-clickable normal link of the above, sorry)

• http://www.linux.com/feature/132197 - Automatically watching Web sites for changes.

References

• http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream - Best practice guidelines on avoiding deviations from upstream projects.