Automatic update using GitHub hooks

[David-Estevez]

Webpage updates are currently done by calling hourly the update script.

GitHub hooks could be configured to trigger the update only when someone creates a new issue in the corresponding repo.

[Siotma]

Maybe, it could be helpful to have an "Update button" just to be manually pushed when the status of any printer has to be changed.

This would also be an intermediate step to have an automatic update system.

[David-Estevez]

With the current implementation, having an "update button" is equivalent in development time to a GitHub hook, as both require to change the static webpage to a server waiting for some input to be updated.

Do you think the hourly update is not updating printers fast enough? Should we perform the update more frequently? (while we don't have any auto-update)

[jgvictores]

Sorry to say, IMHO: manual by button < hourly by CRON < triggered by event

... which would place triggered by event as the only possible enhancement over the current hourly by CRON. Thus, a +1 to the proposal of @David-Estevez.

[Siotma]

Actually, I was talking about having both systems active at the same time, I'm aware that having just a button is worse than the actual implementation.

I think one hour is good enough until a dynamic behavior can be achieved.