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Early warning signs for open source breakages

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-02-07· at 12:15· D.dependency· [developer-experience]

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name:Rhys Arkins
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video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.dependency/dep_early_warning_signs_for_open_source_breakages.mp4
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summary

Describes using Renovate Bot’s crowd-sourced signals (tests, deployments, rollbacks) collected from its ~200,000 GitHub app installations to detect problematic open-source releases early. Explains the existing “Merge Confidence” feature for downstream users and a proposed upstream-focused approach that alerts maintainers to accidental breakages and offers an opt-in mechanism for silent pre-release testing of major features.

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