AJ-954: submit deps for dependabot #198
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Github's dependabot analysis has limited support for Gradle, which will not work out of the box for our project. You can see WDS's depdencies here: https://github.com/DataBiosphere/terra-workspace-data-service/network/dependencies - right now, there's no Java dependencies listed because Dependabot isn't parsing Gradle. See this simple summary or details in this issue report for explanation of the Dependabot/Gradle issues.
So, this PR sets up the gradle-dependency-submission action to submit gradle dependencies directly to the Dependency Submission API. This will allow dependency analysis, but not automatic PR creation.
According to the action author:
So, do we just merge and see if it works?