The dependabot check is once a week on Friday which is, IMO, just right.

Gary

On Wed, Oct 4, 2023, 7:18 PM Phil Steitz <phil.ste...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 1:42 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > Le 03/10/2023 à 20:18, Bruno Kinoshita a écrit :
> > > Same for me, I prefer to know ahead of time if there are any issues
> with
> > > dependencies.
> >
> > But the Commons components are mostly dependency-less, we are flooded by
> > dependabot requests to update non code related dependencies (Maven
> > plugins, GitHub actions) for non critical purposes. It would be better
> > to have such notifications for CVEs only.
>
> I also hate the noise, but I share the pay-as-you-go mentality that
> Gary and Bruno express.  Shoving too many updates in the runup to the
> release can make things harder and cause things to be missed.  I was
> bitten badly some years back by a plugin update that caused release
> jars to be borked.  I would have more likely caught it if the update
> had happened sooner.   I think sebb's suggestion of decreasing check
> frequency is practical.
>
> Phil
> >
> > Emmanuel Bourg
> >
> >
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