pypa / pypa/setuptools

Add mechanism to update vendored dependencies automatically

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Description

In the long run, I would love to have a bot that makes automatic PRs whenever our vendored dependencies are updated. In the short run, I think we can be satisfied with the following setup:

  1. A script and/or tox environment that we can run that does the update for us.
  2. A weekly CI job - either not run during normal PR, or run as an "allowed failure" during normal PR - that runs the script and notifies us if it fails, so we can manually do the update.

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Research direction

Start by locating the existing vendored dependencies, tox configuration, and CI configuration. Determine how the update can be run manually and how a weekly CI job can report failures without blocking normal pull requests; done means both the update workflow and scheduled failure notification are documented and working.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
build-system, ci-cd
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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