[CI] Dependabot: add a cooldown period for new releases #6695
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Enforces security best practices by requiring a minimum age for new dependency releases before they are automatically updated by Dependabot. This practice, known as a "cooldown period," helps mitigate supply chain attacks by allowing time for frequently published malicious packages to be identified. https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/dependabot-options-reference#cooldown-
Summary of ChangesHello @jbampton, I'm Gemini Code Assist1! I'm currently reviewing this pull request and will post my feedback shortly. In the meantime, here's a summary to help you and other reviewers quickly get up to speed! This pull request implements a crucial security measure by configuring Dependabot to enforce a 7-day cooldown period for all new dependency releases. This strategic delay, applied to both standard package ecosystems and GitHub Actions, is designed to mitigate the risk of supply chain attacks by providing a buffer during which potentially malicious packages can be identified before they are automatically integrated into the project. The change directly modifies the Dependabot configuration file to reflect this new policy. Highlights
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This pull request introduces a 7-day cooldown period for new dependency releases in Dependabot for both the main package ecosystem and GitHub Actions. This is a valuable security enhancement to help prevent supply chain attacks by allowing time for malicious packages to be discovered. The implementation is correct. I've included a couple of suggestions to use YAML anchors to define the cooldown configuration. This is a minor improvement for maintainability, making it easier to manage this setting consistently across all ecosystems in the future.
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To improve maintainability and avoid repetition, you could define this cooldown configuration as a YAML anchor. This will allow you to reuse it for other package ecosystems and make future changes easier by only having to update it in one place.
cooldown: &cooldown_config
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By reusing the cooldown_config YAML anchor (as suggested for the previous ecosystem), you ensure that both package ecosystems share the same configuration. This avoids duplication and makes it easier to manage the cooldown period consistently.
cooldown: *cooldown_config
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Enforces security best practices by requiring a minimum age for new dependency releases before they are automatically updated by Dependabot.
This practice, known as a "cooldown period," helps mitigate supply chain attacks by allowing time for frequently published malicious packages to be identified.
https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/dependabot-options-reference#cooldown-