getting notifications when style changes?

Roalderik · June 9, 2016

Is it possible to get e-mail notifications when a particular style is changed?

adamsmith · June 9, 2016

Nothing built in. You could see if you can set up an IFTTT that watches commits to https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles and sends you an e-mail if they contain a specific file. (www.ifttt.com -- that's probably the easiest to set up; there are other similar services)

Rintze · June 9, 2016

I found a service that allows you to track specific files in GitHub repositories: http://github-file-watcher.com/

(you would give the repo address, "https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles", and the file name of the style you're interested in, e.g. "apa.csl")

dstillman · June 9, 2016

You don't say why you want this, but note too that Zotero updates styles automatically.

Roalderik · June 10, 2016

Thank you Rintze, that's exactly what I'm looking for.

@Dan Stillman: I did not know that. I've been telling my users to reinstall our style, when I have updated it.
Does Zotero update all installed styles when you start firefox? I can't seem to find anything about it in the documentation?

dstillman · June 10, 2016

It updates styles installed from the Zotero styles page (which I assume is what you mean, since you're asking here) once a day. Styles installed from elsewhere aren't currently updated automatically.

dstillman · June 10, 2016

(This is "Automatically check for updated translators and styles" in the General pane of the preferences.)

Roalderik · June 10, 2016

Thanks

Rintze · June 10, 2016

It updates styles installed from the Zotero styles page ... Styles installed from elsewhere aren't currently updated automatically.

Dan, the way you wrote this suggests that updating is dependent on how a style was installed. But whether styles are updated only depends on their metadata, right? (style ID, "self"/"independent-parent" link)

adamsmith · June 10, 2016

That's correct -- that's why we tell people to change the ID of custom styles, since they'll be overwritten otherwise.

I think what Dan means to say is that styles not _hosted_ by Zotero aren't auto-updated (which, theoretically, they could be if the self link pointed to a valid URL).

dstillman · June 10, 2016

I think what Dan means to say is that styles not _hosted_ by Zotero aren't auto-updated (which, theoretically, they could be if the self link pointed to a valid URL).

Yes.