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by threeseed 2579 days ago
Curious about the side effects of this.

Imagine you had an open source project that was just something on the side or you worked on in a different life. And then you see pull requests for updates and decide to fix a bug here or there. And then maybe it prompts you to recommit to it.

If that were to apply to even a tiny percentage across all of Github could have major implications for open source as a whole.

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This is absolutely a thing. I've ignored something until heroku let me know it's on such an old platform version, it'll keep running but not restart. So I've given it an update recently.
I gave one of my projects a bit of an update after someone mentioned a part of it was no longer working. I enjoy those kinds of reminders as it reminds me some people still use it.
I think existing repo will get nothing but maybe something will be enabled by default for new repo Which is good for open source repos

I enabled Dependabot for my main OS projects just now