Kevin Matthes

The next step is to discuss the actual implementation of the update automation for the CITATION.cff. The update steps are rather straightforward: replacing the old version with the new one...

@sourcefrog You can go ahead and merge this PR. I will submit a separate PR for the automatic maintenance (#213).

The tests are not running because the Docker image for the validation tool is not a trusted Action, yet. How to fix this problem, @sourcefrog?

I will close and reopen this PR to have the tests run once again.

Yes, no problem. I will remove the test. :+1:

I just updated the `version` and `date-released` fields to refer to today's release. You can go ahead and merge this PR, I removed the test as you requested.

As a first step, I would like to suggest to contact the Dependabot maintainers. I do not know about the plans of the Dependabot project which package registries are going...

An alternative to Dependabot would be Renovate: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate. It is written in TypeScript and comparable to Dependabot regarding their purposes -- suggesting updates for upcoming releases of dependencies. In fact,...

If a certain Nim dependency should be released not only by pushing the respective update to the registry but also by creating a corresponding GitHub release, Renovate is already able...

Regarding an implementation suggestion, I would like to suggest the following possibility. Let us therefore consider the following example where a user shall be added to the list of contributors....