On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 10:29 AM Oscar Benjamin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 02:19, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 5:04 AM Oscar Benjamin
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 at 06:36, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 10:33 PM Jason Moore <[email protected]> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > When the # of dependencies is large, dependabot is a very annoying 
> > > > > feature. I contributed to a Javascript lib and the dependabot floods 
> > > > > your inbox and notifications with useless PRs. It may be ok for us, 
> > > > > since it is only checking a handful of dependencies and those don't 
> > > > > change too often.
> > > >
> > > > We actually have quite a few, assuming we were to pin all of them
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/.github/workflows/runtests.yml#L201-L203
> > > > (there's a few others in this file too, search for "install")
> > > > https://github.com/sympy/sympy/blob/master/doc/requirements.txt
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if there's a tool that lets you easily see how often
> > > > these are updated but my guess would be 1-5 updates a week.
> > >
> > > Yes, but we could set dependabot to just run once a month. We would
> > > get a small flurry of updates. Most could just get immediately merged.
> > >
> > > What would be nie is if there was an alternative to dependabot that
> > > could batch all the different dependency updates into a single PR or
> > > perhaps a PR for say all doc dependencies so that you know that to
> > > review you just need to check the docs build.
> >
> > It seems that you can configure some of these things:
> >
> > https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#open-pull-requests-limit
> > https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#scheduleinterval
> >
> > Although it doesn't seem like it can do the thing you suggest where it
> > just opens one PR then pushes new stuff to that same PR.
>
> No, there is an open issue for it:
> https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/1190
>
> I have figured out though a way that I could automate updates for
> requirements.txt files using the create-pull-request action and
> pip-upgrader:
> https://github.com/marketplace/actions/create-pull-request
> https://pypi.org/project/pip-upgrader/
>
> With that I can make something that creates pull requests with grouped
> updates. My suggestion would be to have it run once per month and open
> 3 PRs:
>
> - Doc build dependencies
> - Test dependencies
> - Linter dependencies
>
> We have doc/requirements.txt which could be updated with pip-upgrader.
> A PR for that could be reviewed by checking the docs build (including
> looking at the generated docs).
>
> We could have a .github/pip-constraints.txt to pin versions for the
> dependencies used in CI test jobs. That could be upgraded in a
> separate PR. In this PR any CI failure indicates some sort of bug
> either in upstream dependency or that something should be fixed in
> sympy to work with the latest version of the dependency.
>
> If all linting is done by pre-commit then we can use pre-commit
> autoupdate to update the versions in the pre-commit config. That could
> be a third PR. Here if CI checks fail it means that we should either
> fix the lint errors or possibly adjust the lint config depending on
> what changes would be needed.
>
> Are there any other places we might want to pin versions and keep them
> up to date automatically?
>
> Actually there is one which is the actions workflow files themselves
> (the versions of the actions that are used). I haven't found something
> that can update those offline but we could use dependabot for that or
> otherwise there is an action that can do it:
> https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-actions-version-updater
>
> If we go with this idea then we can have at most 3 PRs per month plus
> whatever is needed for the actions workflow files.
>
> Does that seem reasonable?

I guess we can try it out and see how it works.

Aaron Meurer

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