mbien commented on PR #4194:
URL: https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/4194#issuecomment-1150080714

   > you are right @mbien the PR dependencies based on maven would be useless 
in our case.
   
   I think they might be useful if it simply generates a list (just like the 
version plugin basically). This could give us a good overview about what is 
used where, point out EOL dependencies etc.
   
   But the main "feature" of dependabot is that it is creating PRs, and those 
PRs run the tests. Devs can see ahead of time if a lib upgrade breaks the 
project. That won't work or us because we can't translate the maven versions 
back to NB's own dependency system (maybe we can, but thats extra work - might 
not be worth it).
   
   However, I don't think this is bad at all! I believe having the ability to 
print all used versions and possible updates can be quite useful. Dependabot 
would have created most likely too much noise anyway for a project like NB.


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