Hi dev@, You will have seen the flurry of incoming PR's for dependency updates. These PR's are generated by a new bot (Fireant) that we wrote on a recent USC Capstone project which I mentored.
What is Fireant? https://github.com/fireant-bot/fireant Fireant is a Dependabot-like service (tailored to Apache Ant + Ivy projects) which creates pull requests to keep your dependencies secure and up-to-date. We wrote it specifically to assist the Nutch project keep dependencies up-to-date. Fireant will run nightly as defined in the following Jenkins pipeline https://ci-builds.apache.org/job/Nutch/job/nutch-fireant/ Plans I would like to donate Fireant to the Nutch PMC via the IP Clearance process (I recently did this with some other software specific to Apache Tika). There are still some issues we are working on, but for the time being, I just wanted to let everyone on dev@ know what was going on. Feedback welcomes :) lewismc
