[githubgen] Stop generating the .github/ALLOWLIST file

Author: atoulme

.chloggen/remove_allowlistgen.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# One of 'breaking', 'deprecation', 'new_component', 'enhancement', 'bug_fix'
+change_type: breaking
+
+# The name of the component, or a single word describing the area of concern, (e.g. crosslink)
+component: githubgen
+
+# A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
+note: Stop generating the .github/ALLOWLIST file
+
+# One or more tracking issues related to the change
+issues: [1505]
+
+# (Optional) One or more lines of additional information to render under the primary note.
+# These lines will be padded with 2 spaces and then inserted directly into the document.
+# Use pipe (|) for multiline entries.
+subtext: |
+  This file has no bearing to GitHub, the CODEOWNERS file already contains a list of unmaintained components.
+  Further, this file is flagged incorrectly by security tools as problematic.

githubgen/README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 # githubgen
 
-This executable is used to generate `.github/CODEOWNERS` and
-`.github/ALLOWLIST` files.
+This executable is used to generate `.github/CODEOWNERS` files.
 
 It reads status metadata from `metadata.yaml` files located throughout the
 repository.

githubgen/codeowners.go

@@ -95,21 +95,6 @@ LOOP:
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-
-	// ALLOWLIST file
-	allowListFile := filepath.Join(data.RootFolder, ".github", "ALLOWLIST")
-	allowListContents, err := cg.getFile(allowListFile)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-
-	allowListContents = injectContent(startUnmaintainedList, endUnmaintainedList, allowListContents, allowListUnmaintainedComponents)
-	allowListContents = injectContent(startDeprecatedList, endDeprecatedList, allowListContents, allowListDeprecatedComponents)
-
-	err = cg.setFile(allowListFile, allowListContents)
-	if err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
 	return nil
 }
 

githubgen/main.go

@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ import (
 
 // Generates files specific to GitHub according to status datatype.Metadata:
 // .github/CODEOWNERS
-// .github/ALLOWLIST
 // .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATES/*.yaml (list of components)
 // reports/distributions/*
 func main() {