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Enable Dependabot prior to launching

Open Beginner friendly
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Assessment

Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github
Domain
devops

Research direction

Start by reviewing pull request #66 and the repository's current configuration to understand what was removed or needs restoring. Enable Dependabot as requested, then verify that the repository is configured for dependency updates before launch.

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Description

Enable Dependabot (eg revert #66) prior to launch.

Dominant language
Shell
Stars
8
Forks
8
Avg merge
17h 28m
Merged PRs (30d)
2

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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