This kind of leaking analysis that `mvn dependency:analyze` does is I think
what is also called IWYU (Include What You Use). I looked around and there
are some gradle plugins to do the same thing. I couldn't tell which was the
most robust.

Kenn

On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:46 AM Chamikara Jayalath <chamik...@google.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 6:10 AM Ismaël Mejía <ieme...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to add to that weekly report the new dependencies that
>> were introduced in the week before, or that have changed?
>>
>
> I think it makes sense to add a recent changes section so that community
> is up to date and can discuss if there are any possible issues. For
> example, (1) new dependencies with known critical vulnerabilities (2)
> component level dependency version overrides that can be avoided.
>
>
>>
>> We are not addressing another important problem: Leaking of
>> dependencies. I am not aware of the gradle equivalent of the maven
>> dependency plugin that helps to determine missing dependencies (non
>> explicitly defined) or unused dependencies. Is there any way to
>> achieve this too? (Note this should probably be enforced at Jenkins
>> not part of the report but just curious)
>>
>
> Agree that this probably be enforced through possibly PreCommit Jenkins
> job instead of the job proposed here.
>
> Regarding leaking, did you mean cross-component leaks (one Beam component
> leaking a dependency to another Beam component) or something else ? For
> cross-component dependency leaks, following proposal promotes using
> versions defined at the top level which will help avoid this issue.
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15m1MziZ5TNd9rh_XN0YYBJfYkt0Oj-Ou9g0KFDPL2aA/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Thanks,
> Cham
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 5:16 AM Yifan Zou <yifan...@google.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Thanks everyone for making comments and suggestions. I modified the
>> proposal that added dependency release time as the major criteria for
>> outdated package determination.
>> > The revised doc is here:
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rqr_8a9NYZCgeiXpTIwWLCL7X8amPAVfRXsO72BpBwA.
>> Any comments are welcome.
>> >
>> > -Yifan
>> >
>> > On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 5:25 PM Chamikara Jayalath <
>> chamik...@google.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks Yifan. Added some comments. I think having regularly generated
>> human reports on outdated decencies of Beam SDKs will be extremely helpful
>> in keeping Beam in a healthy state.
>> >>
>> >> - Cham
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 7:08 AM Yifan Zou <yifan...@google.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hello,
>> >>>
>> >>> I have a proposal to automate Beam dependency check. Since some Beam
>> dependent packages are out-of-date, we want to identify them and check for
>> dependency updates regularly in the future. Generally, we have couple
>> options to do it:
>> >>>     1. Implementing a Jenkins job that check dependency versions and
>> create reports.
>> >>>     2. Using the Github App Dependabot to automate dependency updates.
>> >>>     3. Combination of those two solutions.
>> >>>
>> >>> I am looking forward to hearing feedback from you :)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rqr_8a9NYZCgeiXpTIwWLCL7X8amPAVfRXsO72BpBwA/
>> >>>
>> >>> Thanks.
>> >>>
>> >>> Best.
>> >>> Yifan Zou
>>
>

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