plans for the local WORKSPACE?

The rules_go codebase is currently being tested with bazel 7 which supports bzlmod out of the box. A fair number of the dependencies in WORKSPACE are out of date (see #4500 for one breakage from that) and WORKSPACE dep upgrades are not easily automatable. Bazel 9 is a few months away and will be dropping support for WORKSPACE entirely.

When is the time to remove the WORKSPACE in the rules_go repo? Is there interest in bringing WORKSPACE deps up to date?

Start by reading the WORKSPACE dependency definitions and the breakage discussed in issue #4500, then review how the repository is tested with Bazel 7 and bzlmod. Done would require a decided migration plan for removing WORKSPACE or updating its dependencies, but the issue does not specify a concrete implementation scope.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.