Add workflow and script to clean Dependabot description bodies #989
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This adds a simple Python program to clean up the Dependabot description bodies to remove unwanted sections (like the list of commands) and convert the HTML body to Markdown. Pytest test cases are also provided.
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Turns out it's easy to process these Markdown bodies by looking for the "Commits" section and deleting it and everything after it, then converting what's left to Markdown. The script is short enough that it can be inlined in the workflow YAML file.
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This adds a simple work to clean up the Dependabot description bodies to remove unwanted sections (like the list of commands) and convert the HTML body to Markdown.
The algorithm is simple: look for
<details><summary>Commits</summary>, which marks the beginning of a section listing the commits in the upstream repository, and just delete everything in the Dependabot description from that point to the end. This gets rid of the commits list, the Dependabot command summary, and miscellaneous other bits that we don't find useful.