Freshermeat is an open source software directory and release tracker. Main functionalities are the following:
- tracking of software releases, vulnerabilities (CVE) and news;
- subscribe to releases of a project or an organization via an ATOM feed;
- JSON-based API in order to manages projects, releases, CVEs, etc. and documented with Swagger;
- management of organizations.
Freshermeat instance for tracking security-oriented projects: https://open-source-security-software.net
$ sudo apt install postgresql npm
$ git clone https://git.sr.ht/~cedric/freshermeat
$ cd freshermeat/
$ poetry install
$ poetry shell
(freshermeat) $ npm install
(freshermeat) $ export FLASK_APP=runserver.py
(freshermeat) $ export APPLICATION_SETTINGS=development.py
(freshermeat) $ flask db_create
(freshermeat) $ flask db_init
(freshermeat) $ flask create_admin <login> <password>
(freshermeat) $ flask import_projects var/projects.json
(freshermeat) $ flask import_osi_approved_licenses
(freshermeat) $ flask run
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
* Restarting with stat
* Debugger is active!
* Debugger PIN: 204-397-194
You can configure the application in instance/development.py
or create
your own file and export it in the variable APPLICATION_SETTINGS
.
Workers are located in the folder freshermeat/workers/ and can be launched periodically with cron.
$ FLASK_APP=runserver.py poetry run flask fetch_cves
$ FLASK_APP=runserver.py poetry run flask fetch_releases
$ FLASK_APP=runserver.py poetry run flask fetch_news
Patches and questions? Send to my public
inbox:
~cedric/[email protected]
.
Thanks!
This software is licensed under GNU Affero General Public License version 3
Copyright (C) 2017-2023 Cédric Bonhomme