update lint, dependabot and github actions

Author: marefr

.github/dependabot.yml

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 version: 2
 updates:
   - package-ecosystem: gomod
-    directory: "/"
+    directories: ["/", "/example", "providers/**/"]
     schedule:
       interval: monthly
   - package-ecosystem: github-actions

.github/workflows/go.yml

@@ -8,12 +8,13 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
 
-  build:
+  test:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        go: [ '1.23', '1.24' ]
-    name: Go ${{ matrix.go }}
+        go: ["oldstable", "stable"]
+    name: Tests on Go ${{ matrix.go }}
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
 
@@ -23,8 +24,5 @@ jobs:
         go-version: ${{ matrix.go }}
         check-latest: true
 
-    - name: Build
-      run: go build -v ./...
-
-    - name: Test
-      run: go test -v ./...
+    - name: Run tests
+      run: make test

.github/workflows/lint.yml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ on:
       - "go.sum"
       - "go.mod"
       - "**.go"
-      - ".github/workflows/golangci-lint.yml"
+      - ".github/workflows/limt.yml"
       - ".golangci.yml"
   pull_request:
 
@@ -27,8 +27,18 @@ jobs:
         uses: actions/setup-go@f111f3307d8850f501ac008e886eec1fd1932a34 # v5.3.0
         with:
           go-version: 1.24.x
-      - name: Lint
+      - name: Install golangci-lint
         uses: golangci/golangci-lint-action@2226d7cb06a077cd73e56eedd38eecad18e5d837 # v6.5.0
         with:
-          args: --verbose
+          # golangci-lint needs to be run separately for every Go module, and
+          # its GitHub Action doesn't provide any way to do that. Have it fetch
+          # the golangci-lint binary, trick it into not running by sending only
+          # `--help`, then run the full set of lints below. DO NOT run separate
+          # modules as separate golangci-lint-action steps. Its post run caching
+          # can be extremely slow, and that's amplified in a very painful way if
+          # it needs to be run multiple times.
+          args: --help
           version: v1.64
+      - name: Run lint
+        run: make lint
+

.golangci.yml

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 linters:
   enable:
+    - revive
     - misspell
 
 issues: