Ability to subscribe to tags (not releases)

[h-vetinari]

Currently, it's possible to "watch" releases, but many projects only push tags, and do not use the "release" functionality, making the functionality useless for such projects.

Nominally, this is contained in the title of #111, but that issue was closed without providing that functionality. Also related to #68.

[gaocegege]

Definitely need this feature!

[Stikus]

Any news? I'm trying to push several repo maintainers to create releases too (not only tags) but not everyone doing that.

[OskarEichler]

+1!!!

[andry81]

Another discussion: community/community#4784

[cyqsimon]

This feature is extremely useful for software packagers like me. Please add.

[andry81]

just for instance, can track tags: https://newreleases.io/

Pros: an alternative way of the watch if you been blocked: https://docs.github.com/en/communities/maintaining-your-safety-on-github/blocking-a-user-from-your-personal-account

Cons: can not track assets update only: newreleasesio/client-go#7

[farzbood]

Needed to keep track of external packages dependencies keeping uptodate.

[journeym]

Need that, please implement

[cthart]

Any chance we can get this soon? Many projects only tag "releases" and then do the release elsewhere, eg on pypi.

[h-vetinari]

@ankneis
Given the 👍's here and in https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/4784, would you have the possibility to get this onto https://github.com/github/roadmap somehow? 🙏😊

[arseniiarsenii]

Please, we need this feature 🙏

[markcellus]

In the meantime, until this feature is added, RSS feeds can be an option if you are into them.

You can subscribe to an RSS feed for the repo tag and get updates that way. It's what I've been using.