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@per1234 per1234 commented Sep 11, 2025

Dependabot is used to keep the project dependencies updated. Dependabot periodically checks for available updates, and if found submits a pull request.

The frequency of the update checks is configurable. Despite the name, the "daily" schedule configuration previously used actually only runs on weekdays. Maintenance of open source software projects is not necessarily limited to weekdays (and in the case of volunteer projects, is more likely to occur on weekends). So the weekday-ly update checks tended to result in a concentration of Dependabot pull requests on Mondays. This unnecessarily added to the busyness of an already busy day.

Dependabot is used to keep the project dependencies updated. Dependabot periodically checks for available updates, and
if found submits a pull request.

The frequency of the update checks is configurable. Despite the name, the "daily" schedule configuration previously used
actually only runs on weekdays. Maintenance of open source software projects is not necessarily limited to weekdays (and
in the case of volunteer projects, is more likely to occur on weekends). So the weekday-ly update checks tended to
result in a concentration of Dependabot pull requests on Mondays. This unnecessarily added to the busyness of an already
busy day.
@per1234 per1234 self-assigned this Sep 11, 2025
@per1234 per1234 added type: enhancement Proposed improvement topic: infrastructure Related to project infrastructure labels Sep 11, 2025
@per1234 per1234 merged commit c318cab into arduino:main Sep 11, 2025
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@per1234 per1234 deleted the daily-dependabot branch September 11, 2025 16:49
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