Who are behind the automatic package updates?

[eye942]

Looks like there are a couple bots (e.g. damn-good-b0t and spectopo) that are consistently updating packages.

Are they in collaboration with winget packaging team?
Wondering how much the automation authors should be trusted.

[DandelionSprout]

• "Are they in collaboration with winget packaging team?"

Not in any significant way that I currently know of. The Winget packaging team do however have no issues with the two bots cited as examples; if they had any significant issues with them, I'd likely have noticed.

There are a handful that seem much more official, but they come with the (in my eyes) disadvantage that they are either:
A) Harder to contact if needs be, for instance https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues?q=is%3Apr%20is%3Aopen%20author%3Awingetbot
B) Designed for individual programs only, for instance https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3Acopilot-cli-winget-bot

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• "Wondering how much the automation authors should be trusted."

The 2 users who operate the automators in question (a-mnich and SpectorShell respectively) seem reasonably okay to me, and I've got no issues with them at the time of writing. a-mnich in particular I've helped out on a handful of cases.