[LRUG] Automated gem updates

Wed May 31 03:07:48 PDT 2017

Yes - good point Ben. Using Snyk would definitely mitigate the risk of
moving to less regular updating. We'll get weekly updating implemented ASAP
:-)

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 11:02 AM, Ben Lovell <benjamin.lovell at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 31 May 2017 at 10:59, Harry Marr <harry.marr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Stuart!
>>
>> We’ve had it running with some of the ODI gems, and it’s a tad noisy to
>>> get PRs on a daily basis. Could there be an option to do it weekly?
>>
>>
>> The advantage of daily bumping is you'll pull in vulnerability fixes
>> faster,
>>
>
> Snyk https://snyk.io/ is worth an honourable mention here.
>
>
>> but I can definitely see the argument for a less noisy mode though, so
>> we'll add weekly bumping as an option. Longer term we may keep track of
>> vulnerabilities, which would let us bump vulnerable gems immediately, while
>> doing the standard bumping run less regularly.
>>
>>
>>> I’ve also noticed that it seems to default to only one organisation, and
>>> I can’t seem to work out how to manage personal repos or any other orgs?
>>
>>
>> This is because we're using GitHub's new apps
>> <https://developer.github.com/apps/> API (formerly known as integrations
>> <https://developer.github.com/changes/2017-04-25-Integrations-Pre-Release/>).
>> Unlike traditional OAuth integrations, you install the app to each GitHub
>> account (org or your personal account) individually, and can give access to
>> only specific repos within the account.
>>
>> To add accounts to Dependabot, click the dropdown in the top right and
>> select "Add account". We're aware this is not totally intuitive, so we'll
>> have a think about how we could make it clearer!
>>
>> Thanks again - that's really helpful feedback.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Stuart Harrison <pezholio at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I love this, thank you! (for the record, I worked with James at the Open
>>> Data Institute on Bimble)
>>>
>>> We’ve had it running with some of the ODI gems, and it’s a tad noisy to
>>> get PRs on a daily basis. Could there be an option to do it weekly? When I
>>> was at the ODI, this is what we did with Bimble, and this meant we had some
>>> time scheduled to review all the updates, check the tests passed and merge.
>>>
>>> I’ve also noticed that it seems to default to only one organisation, and
>>> I can’t seem to work out how to manage personal repos or any other orgs?
>>>
>>> Other than that, it looks awesome! :)
>>>
>>> On 30 May 2017 at 21:11:00, Mark Burns (markthedeveloper at gmail.com)
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think if I used this, I'd like the option to update dependencies of
>>> dependencies. Otherwise, you may have a false sense of security. Other
>>> tools would still flag them leaving it as a manual step.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the dependency chain to your app's dependencies could be
>>> highlighted in the PR description. The title could also be different to
>>> make it less confusing.
>>> On Tue, 30 May 2017 at 23:48, Harry Marr <harry.marr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks James, I'm glad you find it useful!
>>>>
>>>> So far we've deferred doing anything with git dependencies (including
>>>> those specified in the Gemfile), but we're very aware we'll need to tackle
>>>> them at some point! Handling dependencies that specify a tag would be tough
>>>> - everyone uses different tagging schemes, and just using the most recently
>>>> created could be dangerous - but dealing with branches should be relatively
>>>> easy.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 30 May 2017 at 14:32, James Smith <james at floppy.org.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Harry,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is bloody brilliant, thankyou. We wrote something similar at the
>>>>> Open Data Institute to do dependencies for us (
>>>>> https://github.com/theodi/bimble), and always meant to turn it into a
>>>>> proper SaaS thing, but never got time. Thankyou for doing it so we don’t
>>>>> have to :)
>>>>>
>>>>> I’ll give you bonus points if you can do git submodules too :)
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers,
>>>>> James Smith
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 May 2017 at 14:08:31, Harry Marr (harry.marr at gmail.com) wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> El Rug, hola!
>>>>>
>>>>> A friend and I just released Dependabot <https://dependabot.com/>, a
>>>>> tool (built in Ruby) for automatically keeping Ruby & JS dependencies
>>>>> up-to-date. We'd love any feedback -- does this match your ideal flow for
>>>>> keeping your Gemfile{,.lock} up-to-date? If not, what would you like to see
>>>>> it do differently?
>>>>>
>>>>> Currently it'll run each morning and create a GitHub PR for each
>>>>> dependency that needs bumping. We've seen other tools that submit one big
>>>>> PR for all updates, but we found those PRs much harder to review, and much
>>>>> risker to merge. That said, more PRs is a bit noisier, so there is a
>>>>> tradeoff.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another thing to note: we won't proactively bump sub-dependencies -
>>>>> they only get bumped when the top-level dependency gets updated (e.g.
>>>>> *arel* will only get updated when *activerecord* or *rails* gets
>>>>> updated). I'd particularly like to hear thoughts on this one. If we did
>>>>> bump sub-dependencies, the volume of PRs would dramatically increase, and
>>>>> could be quite confusing ("what's loofah?! oh, a sub-sub-dependency of
>>>>> rails...."). However, not bumping means we could miss out on important
>>>>> patches.
>>>>>
>>>>> We also wrote up a few blog posts explaining:
>>>>>
>>>>>    - what Dependabot is
>>>>>    <https://dependabot.com/blog/introducing-dependabot>,
>>>>>    - why we think staying up-to-date is worthwhile
>>>>>    <https://dependabot.com/blog/why-bother>,
>>>>>    - and the impact of staying up-to-date on responding to security
>>>>>    issues
>>>>>    <https://dependabot.com/blog/the-latest-dependency-version-is-probably-the-most-secure>
>>>>>
>>>>> Look forward to hearing your thoughts!
>>>>>
>>>>> Harry
>>>>>
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