Adopt use of Mend Renovate App to automatically update tooling and dependencies
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build
enhancement
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 128
- Forks
- 110
- Avg merge
- 5d 14h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 10
Description
Description of issue
- We periodically have to update our use of GItHub actions in workflows due to deprecations
- Sometimes a dependency for a tox command will break due to a new version of an external dependency and we won't discover it until our next PR
- We currently don't lock down our dependencies used to build documentation (so our documentation build could break without warning), but if we do lock them down then we'll accumulate tech debt
The Mend Renovate app can help with this by automatically creating PRs to update actions and dependencies.
Mentioned by @bkeryan in #2039
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the GitHub Actions workflows, tox dependencies, and documentation build dependencies described in the issue. Determine the Renovate App configuration needed to update those inputs automatically, then verify that it can create appropriate update PRs without allowing documentation builds or tox commands to break unexpectedly.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions, python
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100