ci: restore Dependabot for github-actions - #12
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Reverses #8, which removed this during the 2022 GitHub malware-campaign investigation. We are using Dependabot again. Two deliberate differences from the file that was removed: weekly rather than daily, and updates grouped into a single pull request, so the repo stays quiet. Four years without it left every action pin four majors behind, including one whose upstream repo had been archived. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
#8 removed
.github/dependabot.ymlin August 2022, during the GitHub malware-campaign investigation. We're using Dependabot again, so this puts it back.Four years without it is what left every action pin in this repo four majors behind — including
google-github-actions/release-please-action, whose upstream repo has since been archived. #11 fixes the current drift; this stops it recurring.What changed from the file that was removed
- package-ecosystem: "github-actions" directory: "/" schedule: - interval: "daily" + interval: "weekly" + groups: + github-actions: + patterns: + - "*"Weekly rather than daily, and grouped into a single PR rather than one per action. This repo has three workflows and five distinct actions; daily ungrouped updates would be a lot of noise for very little signal. Happy to switch back to daily if that's the preference.
Not included
I left the
dockerecosystem out. It would be genuinely useful here —docker-compose.ymlpinsbuildkite/plugin-testerandbuildkite/plugin-linter, and staleness in exactly those images caused the nightly breakage fixed in #10, plusplugin-linter:v1.1.0has since been deleted from Docker Hub entirely. I've left it out because I'm not certain Dependabot'sdockerecosystem picks up compose files as opposed to Dockerfiles, and I'd rather not add config that silently does nothing. Worth a follow-up if someone can confirm.🤖 Generated with Claude Code