Replacing Github email service with Webhooks

Question

Right now we are using the Github email service so that our team receives notifications whenever changes are made. However, soon Github services will be deprecated. I was wondering if there was any pre existing services that could replicate the behavior that the Github email service produced. This would save us a lot of time and we wouldn't have to run a server just for handling this one webhook.

Thanks

Poppo

Have you found any turnkey solutions for this? I'm in the same boat yet another service to manage just for git notifications would like to find a replacement for the service. – Kinsman

@Kinsman sorry for the ultra late reply. Unfortunately I didn't find any good services and just ended up writing a little server to handle the github webhooks. – Poppo

@Omar Eldar no worries yea I ended up using a free tool called github-webhook-proxy as well. Shame they deprecated this. – Kinsman

Answer 1

As recently (Nov. 2018) confirmed in "GitHub Services Brownout Updates and Timeline", GitHub services (like email notification) will disappear in January 2019.

The original annoucement suggested to replace them with webhooks.

The intention of GitHub Services was to allow third-party developers to submit code for integrating with their services, but this functionality has been superseded by GitHub Apps and webhooks.

In addition, check out GitHub Actions, still in beta but which have potential.
There are efforts made to look for a webhook-based alternative in the meantime. As in for instance pyinstaller/pyinstaller issue 3579. But no clear answer yet.
Update Feb. 2020: this issue is now closed. And GitHub Actions are no longer in beta.

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