Configure Renovate

[strangelookingnerd]

Switch to renovate over dependabot to handle dependency updates.
Eventhough @MarkEWaite is lightning fast when is comes to merging these I personally prefer to use the addtional features of renovate.

Testing done

None.

Submitter checklist

• Make sure you are opening from a topic/feature/bugfix branch (right side) and not your main branch!
• Ensure that the pull request title represents the desired changelog entry
• Please describe what you did
• Link to relevant issues in GitHub or Jira
• Link to relevant pull requests, esp. upstream and downstream changes
• Ensure you have provided tests - that demonstrates feature works or fixes the issue

[mPokornyETM]

features of renovate

which features you means? What are the benefits?

[strangelookingnerd]

Me personally prefers the hustle-free automerge capabilities as well as the independence from GitHub (not that it matters too much in this case, but still). Additonally I find it way easier to add version updates in supporting files, e.g. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/.github/renovate.json#L22-L60 or https://github.com/jenkinsci/custom-folder-icon-plugin/blob/main/.github/renovate.json#L27-L34

[mPokornyETM]

Me personally prefers the hustle-free automerge capabilities as well as the independence from GitHub (not that it matters too much in this case, but still). Additonally I find it way easier to add version updates in supporting files, e.g. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/.github/renovate.json#L22-L60 or https://github.com/jenkinsci/custom-folder-icon-plugin/blob/main/.github/renovate.json#L27-L34

then let it try and we will see

[mPokornyETM]

LGTM

[NotMyFault]

Renovate has been approved :)

[jonesbusy]

This is fixed on recent renovate version (renovatebot/renovate#28893)

I confirm it works for self hosted but not aure about the GitHub app

[strangelookingnerd]

Oh nice, did not know that! Will fix it, thanks for letting me know!