From 5bf95d4840c1ef0b8bae7ba7d3592db4b1fdfcc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: per1234 Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 17:45:47 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Don't limit number of open Dependabot pull requests The Dependabot service is used to keep the project dependencies updated. Thanks to the project's high quality validation infrastructure, the human effort required to complete a trivial version bump is minimal. However, some bumps may introduce breaking changes that would require a significant amount of effort to accommodate, or are blocked by external tasks. In this case, the Dependabot pull request can't be merged, but should be left open to track the need to perform the bump when it is feasible. This means that it should be expected that there will be regularly be a small number of Dependabot pull requests left open in the repository over long periods of time. The automated system is here to assist the human project maintainers, not as a tyrannical overlord, so this is the system working exactly as intended. By default, Dependabot is configured to stop submitting pull requests if it already has five open pull requests. This means that if it happens that the accumulation of intentionally on-hold pull requests reaches that number, the project stops receiving the easily handled trivial update PRs. This is very harmful because it results in the completely unnecessary use of outdated dependencies, and unnecessary challenging large bumps when pull requests start being submitted once more after the backlog is cleared. The harmful default configuration is hereby overridden by configuring the maximum open pull request limit at 100. This value was chosen as an arbitrary large number simply to functionally disable the limiting, rather than from any expectation that the actual number of open PRs can ever reach that count. --- .github/dependabot.yml | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml index feb054f..7601ba2 100644 --- a/.github/dependabot.yml +++ b/.github/dependabot.yml @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ updates: directory: / # Check the repository's workflows under /.github/workflows/ assignees: - per1234 + open-pull-requests-limit: 100 schedule: interval: daily labels: @@ -16,6 +17,7 @@ updates: - package-ecosystem: npm directory: / + open-pull-requests-limit: 100 schedule: interval: daily labels: @@ -25,6 +27,7 @@ updates: - package-ecosystem: pip directory: / + open-pull-requests-limit: 100 schedule: interval: daily labels: