Dependabot: group minor/patch per ecosystem; review majors individually - #67
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Adds a group (patterns: '*') to the conda, github-actions, and docker ecosystems so Dependabot opens a single grouped PR per ecosystem instead of one PR per dependency. When this takes effect Dependabot supersedes and closes the existing individual PRs, replacing them with the grouped ones. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds Dependabot grouped updates to reduce the number of simultaneous dependency PRs by consolidating updates into one PR per ecosystem (conda, GitHub Actions, docker).
Changes:
- Configure Dependabot
groupsfor the conda ecosystem to group all updates into a single PR. - Configure Dependabot
groupsfor github-actions updates across workflows and composite action directories. - Configure Dependabot
groupsfor the docker ecosystem to group base image updates into a single PR.
…-book(major)+ubuntu Revised per review: grouping everything would force accepting poison-pill majors (e.g. jupyter-book 2.x) to take the safe updates. Now: - group only minor/patch (one grouped PR per ecosystem) to cut noise; - major updates arrive as individual PRs to review one at a time; - ignore jupyter-book major (stay on 1.x) and ubuntu (stay on 24.04 LTS). Also rewrote the header comment (addresses Copilot's grammar note). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Tames the Dependabot PR flood (currently 17: #49–#65) without losing per-update control over major bumps.
Approach (revised after review)
Grouping everything was the wrong shape — a poison-pill major like
jupyter-book 2.xwould force you to either accept it (to take the safe updates) or reject the whole group. So instead:minor/patch→ one tidy PR per ecosystem (conda / github-actions / docker) for the low-risk noise (e.g.quantecon-book-theme 0.18→0.21, thesphinx-*bumps).ignore:jupyter-bookmajor → stay on 1.x (2.x is a major rewrite).ubuntu→ stay on the 24.04 LTS base until we deliberately move to the next LTS.actions/checkout 4→6,actions/upload-artifact 4→7,docker/*) are not ignored — they come as individual PRs for you to review.What happens on merge
Dependabot re-evaluates and:
open-pull-requests-limitraised to 10 so the individual major PRs aren't suppressed.🤖 Generated with Claude Code