[Automation] Update the FLS spec lock_file whenever it's trivial to do

[felix91gr]

Can we have some sort of cron job in Github?

Anywho.

Here's the issue at hand: every so often, the FLS changes and we need to update the spec's lock_file. Sometimes, this change affects certain guidelines, and for those cases some amount of non-trivial work is needed to update the project accordingly.

However, most of the time such changes in the FLS are quite trivial and can be resolved with a simple command:

./make.py --update-spec-lock-file

Right now, whenever such changes in the FLS occur, all the active Pull Requests stop being able to build, as seen here. And in order to build once again, an auxiliary PR like #172 needs to be opened and merged.

That's a bit of a waste. It would be great if such changes could be made automatically - ideally, with a cadence of a day or something similar. Plus an event-triggered change whenever a Pull Request is opened.

How does that sound? 🙂

[PLeVasseur]

Sounds great! ☺️

Should be possible to automate this using a Sphinx extension, probably even using some of what's there already in the existing extension.

[plaindocs]

I've not looked at using dependabot for something like this, but that's what it's for right? Open a PR with the change whenever a dependency is updated?

[PLeVasseur]

I'm not familiar with dependabot, but totally open to accomplishing this in the most straight-forward and way in line with what's typically done.

[JoelMarcey]

Yeah, I think Dependabot should work for something like this maybe. Just gotta go through the process of setting it up. https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/getting-started/dependabot-quickstart-guide