Disable nancy updates check

[adamdecaf]

• What are you trying to do? Run nancy in CI builds.

• What feature or behavior is this required for? The requests to GitHub's API to check if there's a newer version available fail due to rate limiting. There's often not a need for this check as teams can watch the repository for updates (or have a schedule to check for updates).

• How could we solve this issue? (Not knowing is okay!) Offer a CLI flag to disable this check.

nancy version 1.0.10 Checking for updates... Error: Failed to query the GitHub API for updates.

This is most likely due to GitHub rate-limiting on unauthenticated requests.

To make authenticated requests please:

1. Generate a token at https://github.com/settings/tokens
2. Set the token by either adding it to your ~/.gitconfig or setting the GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable.

Instructions for generating a token can be found at: https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-personal-access-token-for-the-command-line/

We call the GitHub releases API to look for new releases. More information about that API can be found here: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/releases/

: GET https://api.github.com/repos/sonatype-nexus-community/nancy/releases: 403 API rate limit exceeded for 199.19.85.33. (But here's the good news: Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. Check out the documentation for more details.) [rate reset in 33m03s]

• Anything else? Example: https://github.com/moov-io/paygate/pull/634/checks?check_run_id=1865446379

cc @bhamail / @DarthHater

[adamdecaf]

FWIW I've tried to disable this check by writing the config file, but that seems to not work. (Invalid timestamp format)

See: https://github.com/moov-io/infra/pull/159

[DarthHater]

Thanks for filing the issue @adamdecaf ! @bhamail wrote this feature, I imagine he's going to be really interested in this!

[bhamail]

@adamdecaf Thanks for reporting this. I just released a new version that should solve the problem (so hopefully you can remove your workaround on the update_check.yml file) (neat idea BTW!). Please let us know how the new version works for you.

[adamdecaf]

Awesome, many thanks!