EFI: Automatic security and update

[sheplu]

Motivation

Tools like Renovate or Dependabot can be of a great help to automatically bump version of dependencies for simple update or security. They can also be configured to not overwhelm contributors - and we can automatise the process with github action to automatically merge if all tests are successful (and even publish a new version if needed)

Expectation

Take the point about the level of automation we want
Choose a right implementation (if we want one)

Implementation

Status

Part: Technical

Draft

With the sheer size of all the projects maintaining everything by hand would be time consuming for all maintainers and not very rewarding. By building an automatic (fully?) process for updating dependencies, we would be able to operate faster, reducing overload/workload and give time to the community to focus.
Renovate or dependabot
Automatically run full pipeline
If valid merge (test, benchmark) then release