Plugin version tracking

[lalvarezt]

Currently there's no way to know, for a plugin, when was the last change done and to which version/tag/commit we're aligned to.

I started playing with some ideas in here

The overall workflow is here

Ignore the code part that looks like AI slop, this was just a quick prototype to evaluate options

It will look something like this:

The general idea is that we would have some scripts (and a GH workflow) to detect changes upstream (either tagged releases or pure commits) and show badges on the potential drift that we might want to have a look.

Note: In order to make badges work and to avoid churn on the readme page I experimented with Github Pages (I tried Wiki but couldn't make it work for some reason). This way when a change is detected the readme itself doesn't change because the badge is taken from the GH Pages

The GH Pages look like this, and gives a quick way of showing the diff for the changes for quick inspection

[DrKJeff16]

@lalvarezt I'm all up for this!

[lalvarezt]

let me work somethings out a little bit more and do a proposal. Is there something in particular that you think we might need besides what's already there?

[DrKJeff16]

Is there a Last Updated: ... badge? I'd prefer if we changed the last commit with that if it exists.

[lalvarezt]

we can put in the badge whatever we want (on both the left and right side), see here

[DrKJeff16]

Sure, make a PR when you're ready.