Implement a tool to highlight the outdated dependencies

[liyanhui1228]

Tools to highlight the outdated dependency versions.

• Mark “High Priority” if dependencies have widely adopted major release. (e.g 1.0.0 -> 2.0.0)
• Mark “High Priority” if a new version has been available for more than 6 months.
• Mark “High Priority” if dependencies are 3 or more sub-versions behind the newest one. (e.g 1.0.0 -> 1.3.0)
• Mark “Low Priority” for other dependency updates.

This could be a Python script which runs queries against the release_time_for_dependencies table to get the release time data for the dependencies. And runs checks using the criteria above to mark the dependencies as outdated or not. The output could be a json which contains the outdated deps and indicating the priority.

This result will be used by our badge server to generate github badges to show whether the deps in a package are up-to-date or needs update.

Action items:

• Script for checking the dependency versions.
• Add a function in the badge server to display the result.