[githubgen] Stop generating the .github/ALLOWLIST file

.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

@@ -36,21 +36,17 @@ func (cg *codeownersGenerator) Generate(data datatype.GithubData) error {
 		return err
 	}
 
-	var ownerComponents, allowListUnmaintainedComponents, unmaintainedCodeowners, distributions, allowListDeprecatedComponents []string
+	var ownerComponents, unmaintainedCodeowners, distributions []string
 
 LOOP:
 	for _, folder := range data.Folders {
 		m := data.Components[folder]
 		// check if component is unmaintained or deprecated
 		for stability := range m.Status.Stability {
 			if stability == unmaintainedStatus {
-				allowListUnmaintainedComponents = append(allowListUnmaintainedComponents, folder)
 				unmaintainedCodeowners = append(unmaintainedCodeowners, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s %s", folder, strings.Repeat(" ", data.MaxLength-len(folder)), data.DefaultCodeOwner))
 				continue LOOP
 			}
-			if stability == deprecatedStatus && (m.Status.Codeowners == nil || len(m.Status.Codeowners.Active) == 0) {
-				allowListDeprecatedComponents = append(allowListDeprecatedComponents, folder+"/\n")
-			}
 		}
 
 		// check and handle active codeowners
@@ -95,21 +91,6 @@ 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/constants.go

@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ const startComponentList = `# Start components list`
 const endComponentList = `# End components list`
 const startUnmaintainedList = `# Start unmaintained components list`
 const endUnmaintainedList = `# End unmaintained components list`
-const startDeprecatedList = `# Start deprecated components list`
-const endDeprecatedList = `# End deprecated components list`
 const startDistributionList = `# Start distribution list`
 const endDistributionList = `# End distribution list`
 const unmaintainedStatus = "unmaintained"
-const deprecatedStatus = "deprecated"

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() {