I do not find the dependency reports to have a useful signal-to-noise
ratio, personally. I do like dependabot if we could make our project more
legible to it, if that is an issue.

Kenn

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 7:56 AM Danny McCormick via dev <dev@beam.apache.org>
wrote:

> AFAIK Dependabot doesn't have a great replacement for this. I'm not sure
> why the dependency reports stopped, but we could probably try to fix them -
> looks like they stopped working in October -
> https://lists.apache.org/list?dev@beam.apache.org:2021-10:dependency%20report.
> We still have the job which generates the empty reports -
> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/fed35133ee1cb9eb0c5ec8a1b13a7c75835a1510/.test-infra/jenkins/job_Dependency_Check.groovy#L43
>
> > Also, I noticed that some dependencies are outdated, yet not updated by
> Dependabot. Possibly, because a prior update PR was silenced. Is it
> possible to see the state of which dependencies are currently opted out?
>
> There's not an awesome view of this - looking through logs at
> https://github.com/apache/beam/network/updates/615364619 is the best I'm
> aware of, though it was promised a year and a half ago -
> https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/2255#issuecomment-838622025
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 8:37 PM Valentyn Tymofieiev via dev <
> dev@beam.apache.org> wrote:
>
>> I noticed that human-readable dependency reports are not being generated.
>> Can this functionality be replaced with Dependabot?
>>
>> Does Dependabot provide a view of what is currently outdated from its
>> standpoint?
>>
>> Also, I noticed that some dependencies are outdated, yet not updated by
>> Dependabot. Possibly, because a prior update PR was silenced. Is it
>> possible to see the state of which dependencies are currently opted out?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>

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