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what's the alternative? Write a PR yourself?
Yup. Really easy in most cases if you're just upgrading a dependency version of something to the next minor release up, but then it has to pass all the project CI tests, and get an actual maintainer to tag it for release. That's how open source works though.
That may work for a handful of projects. It'd be my full time job if I did it for everything I run. Also, I might simply suggest maintainers to adopt dependabot or an alternative before I spend time with manual changes. These things should be automated.
Well a PR means an upstream fix for the project. If you want to scan all your local running things, by all means change whatever you want, but it will just be potentially wiped out by the tool you mentioned if running.
dependabot is a tool for repos, not to apply local changes
I'm aware, but then you mentioned "manual changes", which connotes "local changes". Putting up a PR with changes isn't considered a manual anything.
It doesn't. Manual as in a PR with upgrades that you're suggesting yourself, as opposed to running dependabot.
If I have to open a PR myself, that's very much a manual change.
I don't even know what you're talking about now, so I'm going to stop responding. If Dependabot was already enabled for a project, you probably wouldn't need to worry, so that negates this entire thread. 🙄
exactly my point, I'd suggest automating that before I bothered with PRs that upgrade versions, as it's a waste of time.