Dependabot-core: Config file dependency_type

[cihati]

First of all, great work for launching the config files!

What actually is the dependency_type parameter? It is used in https://dependabot.com/blog/introducing-config-files/ quite a bit, but not explained.

[greysteil]

Ah, sorry, I guess we were hoping that would be self-explanatory!

dependency_type is meant to mean what category of dependency something is - generally production or development. So in JS, a dependency declared in devDependencies in your package.json would have the type development, and one declared in dependencies would have the type production.

Is that clearer?

[cihati]

Yep -- definitely cleaner but I highly suggest documenting it somewhere (in general, the config file documentation should probably not live in a blogpost = )

[greysteil]

Great!

Yes - proper docs coming soon, just wanted to make sure we had something to ship for v1!

[SeanFeldman]

proper docs coming soon

How soon is "soon"? 😂
I've just run into this in the documentation and could find any documentation about dependency_type.

[mikedotexe]

Ran into this today, too. Looking forward to documentation. Great product! Keep up the good work.

[hashier]

Ran into it today.
Is dependency_type only supported for javascript?