Dependabot: Not running for cluster-autoscaler?

[jaredledvina]

Which component are you using?:
/area cluster-autoscaler

What version of the component are you using?:

Component version: N/A or master

What k8s version are you using (kubectl version)?:
N/A

What environment is this in?:
N/A

What did you expect to happen?:

I would expect to see regular Dependabot runs for cluster-autoscaler when reviewing https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/actions/workflows/dependabot/dependabot-updates

What happened instead?:

Currently, I'm not seeing any Dependabot runs for cluster-autoscaler. The config in https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/master/.github/dependabot.yml#L67-L68 seems okay to me though. Looking at https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3Aapp%2Fdependabot+is%3Aclosed I can see it's running for addon-resizer and VPA. Perhaps there's really nothing for it to do but, that feels off. For example, https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler/blob/bab427d35e6ec1d386cdc8b0e5b6a75b673df464/cluster-autoscaler/go.mod#L42C2-L42C21 is currently two versions behind (with v0.47.0 being the latest). It's possible I'm just overlooking something however.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):

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Anything else we need to know?:

[kincoy]

It looks like the maintainers manually update the relevant dependencies whenever the Kubernetes version changes, as #8827.

And I'm also not sure why Dependabot is no longger being used.