change-dependabot-interval-to-monthly

[olamy]

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[gregw]

Thanks

[joakime]

This doesn't solve anything, in fact it just makes for more work, more time spent, and harsher demands on the CI system.

[joakime]

Remove the schedule from 9.4.x, we should have it be scheduleless.

Set 10.0.x and 11.0.x to monthly.
See if you can trigger it on the first of each month. (see if the "monthly" literal is on the first of each month)

[joakime]

It would be keen if we could setup a schedule to be "the first Saturday of each month", that way the rush of CI builds will done over the weekend.

[joakime]

We need to adjust the open-pull-requests-limit for the rush of PRs arriving monthly now.

[joakime]

Darn, looks like schedule.interval is a required field.

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#scheduleinterval

Set them all to ...

    schedule:
      interval: "monthly"
      day: "saturday"
      time: "02:00"

[joakime]

Our monthly runs will result in (on average) 67.2 PRs. (calculation: (5.8 + 6.8 + 4.2) * 4)
Of which there's 2 (or 3) builds per PR.
So 134 to 201 builds.
Yeah, triggering these builds early on Saturday makes sense.

[olamy]

Our monthly runs will result in (on average) 67.2 PRs. (calculation: (5.8 + 6.8 + 4.2) * 4) Of which there's 2 (or 3) builds per PR. So 134 to 201 builds. Yeah, triggering these builds early on Saturday makes sense.

open-pull-requests-limit: 20.
not sure how blocker is that. so that may delay a lot of updates :)

[joakime]

open-pull-requests-limit: 20.
not sure how blocker is that. so that may delay a lot of updates :)

Check the comments on the PR, I posted some suggestions on new values for these.

[olamy]

@joakime I need your approval as you requested changes. thanks

[olamy]

all good as the PR has even proper labels 🤣 😜.
I will merge it.