I believe that changed when Github bought dependabot and it become
"embedded" in GitHub soon after: https://dependabot.com/blog/hello-github/

J.


On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 3:43 PM Lewis John McGibbney <lewi...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Thanks Gary and Sebb.
> How do I turn dependabot on? Last time I tried I was informed that due to
> the program requiring write permissions to the repository, it wasn’t
> possible…
> This policy must have changed…
> Thanks for any info.
> lewismc
>
> On 2021/08/29 14:42:00 Gary Gregory wrote:
> > Most of Apache Common's components' are happy users of Dependabot, which
> is
> > used on our GitHub mirrored repositories.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 29, 2021, 10:38 lewis john mcgibbney <lewi...@apache.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi builds@,
> > > I was advised to ask my question here instead of general@incubator.
> > > Thanks for any feedback
> > >
> > > > I understand that we cannot use automated tooling, specifically
> Dependbot
> > > (
> > > > https://dependabot.com/) because it requests write access to the ASF
> > > > project source code.
> > > > I have found this functionality to be really useful and wondered if
> there
> > > > are any suggestions out there for automating the dependency
> management
> > > > workflow?
> > > > Thanks for any feedback.
> > > > lewismc
> > > --
> > > http://home.apache.org/~lewismc/
> > > http://people.apache.org/keys/committer/lewismc
> > >
> >
>

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