Hello all, 
I'd like to propose adding Dependabot to our commit process.  If you aren't 
familiar with Dependabot, it scans dependencies and alerts you to dependencies 
that have vulnerabilities.  I ran dependabot on Drill's source, and found 
several rather serious CVEs associated with dependencies, hence the PRs to 
update Guava, JUnit, and a few others.  

I know that these automated code quality tests aren't always the best in terms 
of producing false positives, but I do think it is in general a good thing to 
at least be aware of these kinds of issues so that we can resolve them if they 
are deemed worthy.  

So... I'd like to call a vote.  Would you like to add dependabot to Drill's 
github repo?  Please vote yes or no by Thursday.

Thanks and Keep on Drilling!
-- C

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