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Switch from Dependabot to `update-dependencies` action for Python dependencies
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Description
Dependabot continues to give us problems for Python in various repositories, with an assortment of problems.
We could move our Python updates to our own update-dependencies action, as we have for job-server.
Timebox: 1 - 2 hours.
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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
Inspect the repository's current Dependabot configuration and Python dependency update workflow, then compare them with .github/workflows/update-python-dependencies.yml from job-server. Switch the Python updates to the update-dependencies action and verify that the workflow produces the expected dependency update changes within the stated timebox.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github-actions, python
- Domain
- ci-cd
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 74/100