Do not use Dependabot to update Github Actions#525
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This does not work well anymore. ASF Infra team uses a whitelist of allowed plugins and their versions and they always lack behind
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Removes Dependabot configuration for GitHub Actions updates to align with ASF Infra’s whitelisted GitHub Actions/plugin version policy.
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- Deleted the
github-actionspackage-ecosystementry from Dependabot configuration so it no longer opens update PRs for workflow action versions.
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#526 should be merged first |
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This does not work well anymore.
ASF Infra team uses a whitelist of allowed plugins + their versions and they always lack behind.
We will have to update the actions manually from now on after consulting with https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-actions/blob/main/actions.yml.