Shields: Github Release Date badge is way off.
It should say "January".
But it says "may 2014".
Bug?
chris001
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On mobile right now so can't investigate properly, but if you visit https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/releases/latest it shows the latest release as May 2014. Think we had a similar issue awhile ago, not sure if it got solved though.
RedSparr0w
on 8 Mar 2018
This is the relevant post: https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/1355#issuecomment-350102951
On your repo, v6.5.6 (25 May 2014) is a _release_, whereas v7.1.5 (13 Jan 2018) is a _tag_ but confusingly GitHub uses these terms slightly differently in the web front-end and the API which sometimes causes confusion.
chris48s
on 8 Mar 2018
Let us know if you have other questions!
paulmelnikow
on 9 Mar 2018
Is there any way to get this latest release date information from the github version tags? For a repo which has no github "release" objects. Or for a repo where the latest "release" object is many, many "tags" behind. For example, this repo: https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap/releases/latest
chris001
on 9 Mar 2018
Yes, you can use /github/tag:
https://img.shields.io/github/tag/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap.svg
However it's not 100% reliable. See #875.
paulmelnikow
on 9 Mar 2018
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This is the relevant post: https://github.com/badges/shields/issues/1355#issuecomment-350102951
On your repo, v6.5.6 (25 May 2014) is a _release_, whereas v7.1.5 (13 Jan 2018) is a _tag_ but confusingly GitHub uses these terms slightly differently in the web front-end and the API which sometimes causes confusion.