Hi Misagh,
I find your proposal very interesting, so for me +1.
Just want to underline that /Renovate/ has recently joined /WhiteSource/
and this is a plus IMHO because /WhiteSource/ is known to deal with the
open source security world and the takeover let them provide their
offerings for free (a good news for us too :)).
Moreover, I remember I heard about /Renovate/ in the front-end world
context, it was mentioned to be very useful for all the projects using
NPM packages.
Regards,
Matteo
[1]
https://renovate.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog/renovate-is-now-part-of-whitesource/
On 11/12/19 15:00, Misagh Moayyed wrote:
Hey Team,
I suspect most know about this sort of thing, but I thought to share this with
you:
https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate
I think this is a useful tool to allow a Github project such as Syncope to
automatically receive dependency updates and become self sufficient. It will
attempt to parse the project's dependencies/pom and will then begin to issue
pull requests with relevant updates. Its schedule, update policy and
inclusion/exclusion rules can all be controlled via a .renovate JSON file.
It can run in two ways:
1- As a GitHub app, which would be installed for the Apache org on Github and
enabled for select repositories, such as Syncope. This option requires
coordination/permission from Apache infra, and updates are then automatic.
2- As a CLI tool, where a committer's personal access token is passed as a
command-line argument, and the tool can run as part of CI. This option probably
does not require anything from Apache infra [?], and updates can be cancelled
as part of the CI job that runs the tool.
I am not sure what the CLA policy would be for bots; the second option probably
[?] covers this, as PRs are issued on behalf of the committer whose AT is used.
Either way, it seems like we need clarification from Apache infra.
This is an example of a pull request by the bot:
https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/pull/1849
This is an example of the bot's JSON configuration file:
https://github.com/Jasig/uPortal/blob/master/renovate.json
How do you feel about this? Is this a good option to pursue and follow up?
The bot also has the ability to rebase PRs, and can also take over the merging
process automatically if CI passes or other rules allow. (At some point in the
future, I think it will also gain the ability to travel back in time and kill
Sarah Connor [1], but that has yet to be fully verified.)
--Misagh
[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sarah_Connor_(Terminator)
