Hi Gavin, we actually made that change in JCasC to prepare 
for https://github.com/jenkins-infra/plugin-site-api/pull/54
Good that dependabot is something you can depend on 😁

Original PR 
https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin/pull/1004

On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 6:50:38 PM UTC+2, Gavin Mogan wrote:
>
> Hey Ya'll,
>
> tl;dr - Make sure project > scm > url is set to github, (example 
> https://github.com/jenkinsci/configuration-as-code-plugin/blob/master/pom.xml#L41
> )
>
> ---
>
> I thought I'd share my limited findings with all of your. A couple weeks 
> ago I contacted dependabot support to try and find out why some javascript 
> modules had changelogs/release notes mentioned. I got a bunch of good 
> responses back, and nudged them to document this info publicly.
>
> But for now, I share what I learned.
>
> Dependabot has a lot of open source code, including how it processes 
> module metadata.
>
>
> https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/blob/e654f214a932672d8ac0ea428ef9d672ac5bba33/maven/lib/dependabot/maven/metadata_finder.rb#L52
>
> It loops through a bunch of properties inside the maven pom file, project 
> > url (which should point at wiki/plugins site for us), project > scm > url 
> (which right place to set it), and lastly project > issueManagement > url 
> (which probably defaults to jira)
>
> When that url is set right, dependabot knows where to pull information 
> from. See https://github.com/jenkinsci/ci.jenkins.io-runner/pull/192 as a 
> good example.
>
> It'll list the commits between tags. Release Notes if you use github 
> releases (release drafter makes that easy) and Changelog if it can find a 
> changelog file in the repo. I can go into more details about this if people 
> want.
>
> *But I strongly recommend at least setting up project > scm > url, and 
> either a changelog file, or preferably release notes for releases.*
>
> That'll make other plugin authors know if its worth upgrading/what 
> potentially might break when getting a dependabot PR.
>
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>

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