# Initialize attobot manually?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initialize-attobot-manually/20581>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [February 8, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initialize-attobot-manually/20581 "2019-02-08T12:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![timueh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/timueh/32/12379_2.png) [@timueh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/timueh)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initialize-attobot-manually/20581/1 "2019-02-08T12:59:06Z")

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I am in the midst of finalizing a package. As far as I understand, attobot is the preferable way to get the package registered. Also, as soon as I create a release on GitHub, this will trigger attobot. Is there also a way to trigger attobot manually?

Just a minute ago I was in the following situation: I had activated attobot for my repository, had created a release, and then got the error that the `REQUIRE` file was missing, see [this post](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/attobot-for-pkg3-projects/13371). I then pushed the `REQUIRE` to the repository, deleted the release, just to create it again, which triggered attobot. Is there a simpler way? Is Attobot also triggered if I just pretend to modify the release and save the changes?

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initialize-attobot-manually/20581/2 "2019-02-08T13:13:18Z")

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What you did is the recommended way, see

[https://github.com/attobot/attobot#updatingdeleting-a-release](https://github.com/attobot/attobot#updatingdeleting-a-release)

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**Author:** ![timueh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/timueh/32/12379_2.png) [@timueh](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/timueh)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/initialize-attobot-manually/20581/3 "2019-02-08T13:22:46Z")

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Yes, I did it the way I did it because it said so in attobot’s `README`. I was just curious whether _saving_ a release does the same thing? But I guess it doesn’t, otherwise attobot’s `README` would be different. 🙂