Dependabot: Monthly upgrades to GitHub Actions #1031
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Summary
Dependabot: Monthly upgrades to GitHub Actions
Checklist
GitHub Actions are only used at CI test-time, while most other dependencies are also used at runtime. This means that if the CI tests pass, maintainers have more confidence that the proposed changes will not break runtime.
GitHub Actions have very infrequent major version changes .
setup-python
, the most frequent, has only had five major upgrades in its lifetime.When GitHub Actions are upgraded, it often happens in batches. The
pattern: *
proposed in this PR will consolidate all GHA updates into a single pull request to further reduce chattiness. Please see the example output provided above.There is a tradeoff between supply chain security and chattiness. Given that we have a few GHAs that are updated rarely and usually in batches, and we are using
pattern: *
to ensure that there will only ever be a single GHA upgrade PR at a time.