How are Icon updates scheduled?

[Andre601]

I was curious to know, how adding/supporting new icons from Simpleicons.org are scheduled.
Is it checked every x time and if new/changed icons exist, update, or is it only updated once Simpleicons gathered a large amount of new/changed/deleted icons?

I ask, because they now released new icons from which I would like to use one. But unfortunately does shields.io not yet display it when provided through the logo querry.

[calebcartwright]

Shields supports SimpleIcons via the simple-icons package. We primarily integrate dependency updates via Dependabot which runs weekly (on Fridays), and that includes the simple-icons package. There's almost always a deployment to the Shields.io production environment within a couple days after the Friday dependency bumps, though that's more a practice than any kind of guarantee.

If Dependabot tells us there's a new version of simple-icons then we'll pull it in, regardless of how many new icons there may or may not be.

I ask, because they now released new icons from which I would like to use one. But unfortunately does shields.io not yet display it when provided through the logo querry.

I've described the process for pulling in SimpleIcons changes above, and I don't imagine it'll be feasible to increase the frequency there. When users would like to get a sense of when Shields.io will support some new X icon from SimpleIcons that's not yet available on Shields.io, I'd suggest:

1. Determine which released version of SimpleIcons contains icon X
2. Check the version of SimpleIcons used by Shields within this repo

If those two are the same, then it's probably a matter of days til the updates are finished getting deployed to production. If they are not, then it will probably be a week or so and you can keep an eye out for the weekly Dependabot update PR like #5357