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dependabot: Add config file.#4778

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Currently, dependabot will automatically open PRs to address
reported security vulnerabilities in packages. I'm interested to see
if it can help us be better about keeping our packages up-to-date in
general.

There are plenty of config options we can choose from (see the
linked doc). For now, I'm just curious to see what it does with this
simple config.

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LGTM! I'm a bit worried about noise, but happy to try it out and see what happens.

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chrisbobbe commented Jun 4, 2021

Thanks for the review! Merged.

We can always lower open-pull-requests-limit down from 5 to reduce noise (5 is the default, but I added it for explicitness so it's visible as something that's super simple to change).

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I like that Dependabot links (and sometimes quotes) the changelog for the package; it saves some clicking around in GitHub which can be slow.

I noticed this while looking at
  https://lgtm.com/projects/g/zulip/zulip-mobile/.

It looks like LGTM (and GitHub's "CodeQL", which uses it) isn't
ready to support Flow yet [1], and I think that's causing a lot of
noise into the alerts there. So, while this tool isn't quite ready
for us to use in CI yet, maybe we can check back on it at some
point? :)

[1] github/codeql#6016
I'm not sure what practical difference this makes, but it's in a
file dedicated to types, so it seems right to use `import type`.

I noticed this while looking at
  https://lgtm.com/projects/g/zulip/zulip-mobile/.

It looks like LGTM (and GitHub's "CodeQL", which uses it) isn't
ready to support Flow yet [1], and I think that's causing a lot of
noise into the alerts there. So, while this tool isn't quite ready
for us to use in CI yet, maybe we can check back on it at some
point? :)

[1] github/codeql#6016
Currently, dependabot will automatically open PRs to address
reported security vulnerabilities in packages. I'm interested to see
if it can help us be better about keeping our packages up-to-date in
general.

There are plenty of config options we can choose from (see the
linked doc). For now, I'm just curious to see what it does with this
simple config.
@chrisbobbe chrisbobbe force-pushed the pr-dependabot-config branch from 4d2304c to 0f83ab8 Compare June 4, 2021 20:26
@chrisbobbe chrisbobbe merged commit 0f83ab8 into zulip:master Jun 4, 2021
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