Dependabot: add a per-ecosystem 'majors' group (kill cross-dir duplicates) - #76
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…icates 'Majors individual' duplicated the same action across the 8 composite-action directories (actions/cache x3, upload-artifact x3, github-script x2, ...). Each ecosystem now has two groups — minor/patch and major — so updates land as at most two PRs per ecosystem (a safe one and a review-carefully majors one), with no per-directory duplicates. jupyter-book(major) and ubuntu stay ignored. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Pull request overview
Adjusts Dependabot grouping so that each ecosystem produces at most two PRs (minor/patch vs major), preventing duplicate PRs caused by scanning multiple action directories in the github-actions ecosystem.
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- Added per-ecosystem
*-majorDependabot groups to bundle major updates into a single PR per ecosystem. - Updated header/docs in the Dependabot config to reflect the new two-group strategy per ecosystem.
- Applied the same minor/patch vs major split consistently across
conda,github-actions, anddocker.
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Follow-up to #67. "Majors individual" backfired: because
github-actionsscans 8 composite-action directories, the same action major showed up as one PR per directory —actions/cache 4→5×3,actions/upload-artifact 4→7×3,actions/github-script 7→9×2, plusnodejs×2 — ~13 duplicate PRs.Fix
Each ecosystem now has two groups:
<eco>— minor/patch updates (low-risk; safe to merge together)<eco>-major— major updates (review carefully)So updates collapse to at most two PRs per ecosystem (a safe one + a majors one), with no per-directory duplicates. The known-bad bumps stay blocked:
jupyter-bookmajor (stay 1.x) andubuntu(stay 24.04 LTS).Result after merge
Dependabot re-reconciles and supersedes/closes the duplicated individual PRs, leaving roughly:
nodejs)checkout,cache,upload-artifact,github-script,docker/*(all dirs) — your single "review the action majors" PR~16 → ~3, majors isolated in a dedicated PR to scrutinise.
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