yet another attempt to make dependabot changelogs work (#14021)

* yet another attempt to make dependabot changelogs work * Changelog
matrix-org · Oct 3, 2022 · 3ac0e76 · 3ac0e76
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diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependabot_changelog.yml b/.github/workflows/dependabot_changelog.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ permissions:
   #     https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/automating-dependabot-with-github-actions#enable-auto-merge-on-a-pull-request
   # for a similar example
   contents: write
+  # The pull_requests "synchronize" event doesn't seem to fire with just `contents: write`, so
+  # CI doesn't run with the new changelog. Maybe `pull_requests: write` will fix this?
+  pull_requests: write
 
 jobs:
   add-changelog:
@@ -27,3 +30,5 @@ jobs:
           git commit -m "Changelog"
           git push
         shell: bash
+  # THIS WORKFLOW HAS VARIOUS WRITE PERMISSIONS---do not add other jobs here unless they
+  # are sufficiently locked down to dependabot only as above.
diff --git a/changelog.d/14021.misc b/changelog.d/14021.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Prototype a workflow to automatically add changelogs to dependabot PRs.