chore(ci): drop scheduled version updates, keep security updates - #22
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Weekly version bumps across four ecosystems produce a steady stream of PRs that each fan out to nine CI jobs, for upgrades that are mostly routine. Dependabot alerts and security updates are enabled at the repository level instead, so PRs arrive only when a dependency actually has a published vulnerability. Actions minutes are not the reason: the repository is public and runs on standard runners, where they are free. This is about review attention. Dependencies will drift between security fixes; refresh them deliberately rather than continuously. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reverts the scheduled version updates added in #7. Security coverage is unaffected — it moves to where it belongs.
What changed
.github/dependabot.yml— this file only drove scheduled version updates (weekly bumps across Go, npm, actions and Docker).Security updates do not need
dependabot.yml. They apply repo-wide to every supported ecosystem and raise a PR only when a dependency has a published advisory.Why
Weekly bumps across four ecosystems produce a continuous stream of PRs, each fanning out to nine CI jobs, overwhelmingly for routine upgrades.
To be clear about what this is not about: the repository is public and every job runs on standard
ubuntu-latestrunners, where Actions minutes are free and unlimited. There was no billing concern. This is about review attention — a stream of low-signal PRs makes the one that matters easier to miss.Trade-off
Dependencies will drift between security fixes. Worth a deliberate refresh periodically rather than a continuous trickle.
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