proposal: reduce dependabot noise #1610
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Of the last 100 commits to
master
over 75 have beendependabot
updates. While I like the atomic nature of these, this feels like a lot of history noise, and also merging all of the dependabot PRs is usually an easy but tedious task that gets in the way of other maintenance tasks and updates.Proposal:
weekly
tomonthly
git2
andclap_mangen
are treated this way because they both have pending PRs that are failing CIMy feeling is that this still gives us regular, reasonably frequent dep updates, while still reducing the amount noise and chores we have to deal with. It should still give us a reasonable target for bisecting any regressions, should any occur.
I have not yet tested this, and I'll need to do that before proceeding. In the meantime, I want to park this for discussion.
The docs for
dependabot.yml
are at https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/working-with-dependabot/dependabot-options-reference