Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > Oh, but I obviously was not suggesting as crude a thing as to scrape it > unconditionally, and certainly not daily. No, I was thinking about > something checking the `Last-Modified:` header and only acting upon > updated Unicode definitions, and checking for updates only on a weekly > basis. Something along these lines: > ... > Sadly, to update the repository variable, we cannot use `permissions:` > because the workflow syntax does not offer the `variables` scope. > Therefore a Personal Access Token would need to be stored as a repository > secret. I used a fine-grained token in my tests whose sope was > Repository > Variables: read-write. And it can make a patch and send it to the list and get reviewed the usual way. It is a bit curious whose Sob should be on such a patch, but we can work out the details, if we were seriously to automate it. It all seems workable. You may have already noticed, but I am lazy and tolerate manual tasks if they do not come more often than once per quarter ;-) Thanks.
