First of all, thanks for Discourse and thanks for making it open source :heart:. I’ve got a suggestion / request: would you be up for using Dependabot to automatically create dependency update PRs? I built it and would love to have Discourse using it because it would be great for Dependabot’s profi…

It there any way for Dependabot to create its branches in a fork, then make pull requests to the main repository? It would be nice if write permissions didn’t have to be granted to the app.

It there any way for Dependabot to create its branches in a fork, then make pull requests to the main repository? It would be nice if write permissions didn’t have to be granted to the app. Frustratingly, there’s no easy way for me to get Dependabot to do that :sadpanda:. I’m going to speak to Gi…

I feel we just have to hold off here till “fork and PR” is a thing, any luck talking to GitHub?

Use Dependabot for dependency updates?

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greysteil (Grey Baker) November 2, 2018, 8:22am 6

Not yet, but I’ll keep plugging away, and this is a good incentive!

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Use Dependabot for dependency updates?

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