I’m having trouble staying on top of updates for my self hosted applications and infrastructure. Not everything has auto updates baked in and some things you may not want to auto update. How do y’all handle this? How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? Are there e.g. feeds for specific applications I can subscribe to via RSS or email?
This is a bad idea for a number of reasons. Most obvious issue is that it doesn’t guarantee anything in the way of actually fixing vulnerabilities, because some project you use may not even be scanning their own work.
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. 🙄