Add cooldown for application dependency updates #765
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Dependabot's cooldown function is a protection against supply chain attacks. There have been a lot of these recently against npm. By waiting a week before pulling new package versions, we are much less likely to be exposed to malicious versions before they are yanked from the package index. We may wish to tweak this for particular packages, e.g. if they are internally authored. We are already excluding nhsuk-frontend from dependabot so we don't need to worry about that one. I'm not sure about terraform updates so I've left that alone in this commit.
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Dependabot's cooldown function is a protection against supply chain attacks. There have been a lot of these recently against npm.
By waiting a week before pulling new package versions, we are much less likely to be exposed to malicious versions before they are yanked from the package index.
We may wish to tweak this for particular packages, e.g. if they are internally authored. We are already excluding nhsuk-frontend from dependabot so we don't need to worry about that one.
I'm not sure about terraform updates so I've left that alone in this commit. Let me know if I should add it in.
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