Allow following a repo releases in 2 clicks

[fregante]

Description

I think generally I only follow releases on repos, so I think it should be easier to do that. Currently it requires 4 clicks but maybe we can reduce it to two.

Related

• #3005

Before

After

Example URLs

https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github

[yakov116]

I would love if #3005 was done first

[fregante]

I think this would work great on the Releases page as a "Follow releases" button, especially now that the Watch dropdown is relegated to the Code tab.

It could work as a one-way button, if you're not following the repo:

If you're following the releases OR "every event in the repo", show the status, but disabled:

Then somehow we can inform the user that they can unfollow the repo or change the watch status in the Code tab.

This is because if the user is following the whole repo, we can't just unfollow the releases.

This button can probably be built directly via API:

1. fetch status via API
2. create button
3. on click, post to API
   1. update+disable button

[fregante]

I looked into this, it doesn't look like neither the REST nor the GQL API offers even a way to check whether the user is subscribed to releases. Subscriptions are handled everywhere as yes | no | ignored. "Repo releases" are not a "subscribable entity" either.

• rest: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/watching?apiVersion=2022-11-28#set-a-repository-subscription
• gql: https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/reference/mutations#updatesubscription

So on the repo root:

1. check the DOM
2. submit the specific form and authenticity_token found

On the releases page:

0. Fetch the repo root first
1. same
2. same