I think we really want the PRs, the main benefit is to have the software
built and tested WITH the dependency update, that is a huge time saver.

Gary

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 13:17 Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> wrote:

> I am not sure that is possible since Dependabot is actually creating PRs
> and GitHub sends those to the mailing list. What I heard was that they
> would like to have Dependabot just send reports from time to time about
> what dependencies could be changed rather than create PRs.  Matt also
> mentioned that if Dependabot is going to create PRs then it should also
> create the corresponding Jira issues and change.xml updates if and when
> projects require those.
>
> Ralph
>
> > On Sep 16, 2020, at 10:05 AM, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think the desire-complaint is how to stop Dependabot from sending
> emails
> > to our ML.
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2020, 09:33 Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Did you know that you can configure Dependabot to ignore specific
> >> dependencies and version ranges? You can also configure default
> >> reviewers (see also the GitHub CODEOWNERS file which can help set up
> >> default reviewers [1]). If desired, you can configure it to only make
> >> PRs for security updates which would reduce them to the bare minimum.
> >> If you read the (admittedly verbose) Dependabot message in the PR, it
> >> has links to changelogs and whatnot for the PR it's making. Being that
> >> they're PRs, I don't know of any way to hide notifications from it to
> >> the dev list other than making your own filters. I think properly
> >> configuring the bot would be appropriate; otherwise, it's not a useful
> >> feature if it's simply ignored.
> >>
> >> Now if someone discovers how to automatically create Jira tickets to
> >> go with the PRs, that'd be nifty. Or changelog entries. The underlying
> >> code appears to be source-available, but not open source (restrictions
> >> on use) [2].
> >>
> >> [1]:
> >>
> https://docs.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/about-code-owners
> >> [2]: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core
> >>
> >> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 07:51, Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Le mer. 16 sept. 2020 à 14:42, Jochen Wiedmann
> >>> <jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:38 PM Gilles Sadowski <gillese...@gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Isn't what
> >>>>>   https://spamassassin.apache.org/
> >>>>> is about?
> >>>>
> >>>> Not that I am uptodate, but at least historically it hasn't. It's
> >>>> mostly about blocking spam. Related, but not necessarily reusable for
> >>>> the suggested purpose.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know the details either; I meant that, in order to block
> >>> <unsolicited contents>, the first step is to recognize it as such.
> >>>
> >>> From the above web site:
> >>> ---CUT---
> >>> [...] anti-spam platform giving system administrators a filter to
> >>> classify email [...]
> >>> [...] scoring framework and plug-ins to integrate a wide range of
> >>> advanced heuristic and statistical analysis tests on email headers and
> >>> body text including text analysis [...]
> >>> ---CUT---
> >>>
> >>> Gilles
> >>>
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