Hubcap

Hubcap is the script that generates the pages of the dbt package registry site, hub.getdbt.com.

Each hour, hubcap.py runs, and checks whether there are new releases for any of the repositories listed in hub.json. If a new release has been created, or a new package has been added to the list, a Pull Request is opened against the hub.getdbt.com repository to update the the registry site to reflect this. PRs are approved by a member of the Fishtown Analytics team, typically within one business day.

Caveats and Gotchas

Assorted constraints:

• project must be hosted on GitHub
• your project must have a dbt_project.yml with a name: tag in the yaml
• if used by your project, a packages.yml must live at the root level of your project repository
• only release names that use semantic versioning will be picked up by hubcap — both 0.1.0 and v0.1.0 will be picked up, but first-release will not.

Adding your package to hubcap

Currently, only packages hosted on a GitHub repo are supported.

To add your package, open a PR that adds your repository to hub.json.