Use GitHub releases

[Mailaender]

https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software

Advantage is that we use the GitHub CDN instead of just our donated web server. Might not be fully automatizable though.

[pchote]

This doesn't look to offer a reasonable interface for serving platform specific binaries (but I may be wrong).

[Mailaender]

Tried it https://github.com/Mailaender/OpenRA/releases/tag/release-20121019 It works like the whole GitHub website in a KISS fashion. Select the tag, drag and drop binaries (I see no way to automatize this.) type a Markdown description and submit.

[Mailaender]

https://github.com/blog/1645-releases-api-preview

[pchote]

The Textmate repo has a script for signing and uploading binaries using the releases API: https://github.com/textmate/textmate/blob/master/bin/upload

[Mailaender]

I think we want this. According to http://stats.pingdom.com/syygqlg6525r/788293 the webserver does not look healthy and we need it online for get-dependency.php redirects.

[Mailaender]

I did https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/releases/tag/release-20131223 manually (which is actually quickly done and we can probably live without automation for now) and changed the links in OpenRA/OpenRAWeb#101 I guess we don't need it for the more frequently (actually not anymore) released playtests that are far less popular.