Badges are pretty popular in GitHub though there don't seem to be many that
provide information on distros that have packages for a project. This would
be very useful because, at least for me, the first thing I do when I want
to try a new project is see if a package is available for the distro I'm
working with, usually Fedora or CentOS.

I searched around, but couldn't find anything that existed already (please
let me know if I missed it), so I made static badges for one of my
projects, python-enlighten[1], but this requires remembering to update them
when a new version of Fedora comes out.

I tried to create a dynamic one, but it isn't exactly what I want. It's
based on if a branch exists and starts with 'f' or 'e', not if there is a
stable package for that branch. Also, the branch names are not consistent
between EPEL 6 and EPEL 7, so it would be better to just get the number.
Might as well just use the number for Fedora too for consistency.

Static Fedora:
https://img.shields.io/badge/Fedora-26,_27-lightgrey.svg

Static EPEL:
https://img.shields.io/badge/EPEL-6,_7-lightgrey.svg


Dynamic Fedora:
https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?uri=https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/rest_api/v1/component-branches/?global_component=python-enlighten;fields=name;active=true;type=rpm&query=$.results[?(@.name.startsWith(
"f"))].name&label=Fedora

Dynamic EPEL:
https://img.shields.io/badge/dynamic/json.svg?uri=https://pdc.fedoraproject.org/rest_api/v1/component-branches/?global_component=python-enlighten;fields=name;active=true;type=rpm&query=$.results[?(@.name.startsWith(
"e"))].name&label=EPEL

I'm also not sure the best place to point them to. shields.io does let you
set a target for both the left and the right sides, but I just set the
target within readme.rst and pointed both badges to the Bodhi updates page
for the package.

Anyone have a better way to generate dynamic badges? Should badge
generation be a part of the Fedora infrastructure?

For an alternative approach, would it be better to show the latest stable
version in the latest Fedora. Something like this, but dynamic:

https://img.shields.io/badge/Fedora_27-1.0.7-lightgrey.svg


[1] https://github.com/Rockhopper-Technologies/enlighten
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