<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks James, I'm glad you find it useful!</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Tue, 30 May 2017 at 14:32, James Smith <<a href="mailto:james@floppy.org.uk" target="_blank">james@floppy.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div id="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">Harry, </div><div id="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">This is bloody brilliant, thankyou. We wrote something similar at the Open Data Institute to do dependencies for us (<a href="https://github.com/theodi/bimble" target="_blank">https://github.com/theodi/<wbr>bimble</a>), 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 :)</div><div id="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">I’ll give you bonus points if you can do git submodules too :)</div> <br> <div class="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_sign" id="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581bloop_sign_1496151036463767040"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">cheers,<br>James Smith<br></div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"> <br><p class="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581airmail_on">On 30 May 2017 at 14:08:31, Harry Marr (<a href="mailto:harry.marr@gmail.com" target="_blank">harry.marr@gmail.com</a>) wrote:</p> </div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><blockquote type="cite" class="m_4852131179407009737m_-4822114200331305581clean_bq"><span><div><div>
<div><span style="font-size:12.8px">El Rug, hola!</span>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">A friend and I just
released <a href="https://dependabot.com/" target="_blank">Dependabot</a>, 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?</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">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.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Another thing to note: we won't
proactively bump sub-dependencies - they only get bumped when the
top-level dependency gets updated (e.g. <i>arel</i> will
only get updated
when <i>activerecord</i> or <i>rails</i> <wbr>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.</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">We also wrote up a few blog posts
explaining:</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">
<ul>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://dependabot.com/blog/introducing-dependabot" target="_blank">what Dependabot is</a>,</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="https://dependabot.com/blog/why-bother" target="_blank">why we
think staying up-to-date is worthwhile</a>,</li>
<li style="margin-left:15px">and <a href="https://dependabot.com/blog/the-latest-dependency-version-is-probably-the-most-secure" target="_blank">the impact of staying up-to-date on responding to
security issues</a><br></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Look forward to hearing your
thoughts!</div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px">Harry</div>
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