Updates for github.com/google/go-github

[psalaberria002]

Is it possible to automate the updates to github.com/google/go-github similar to how other go modules are updated?

[bluekeyes]

Most existing tools we've tried (like Dependabot and our internal Excavator tooling) don't handle major version updates for Go modules particularly well and so don't do a great job at go-github updates. We have some custom logic to update this dependency internally, but haven't adapted it to work with this open-source repository yet. So it should be possible to updated automatically, but requires a bit more work on our side than enabling an option somewhere.

(If this was motivated by us failing behind on recent versions, I released 0.39.0 that updates to go-github v79)

[psalaberria002]

That was the main reason for opening the issue yes.

Feel free to close it.

[bluekeyes]

Thanks to @yevbar, PRs for these upgrades should be automated going forward (although we'll still need to manually approve and release them.)