Dependabot: majors are deliberate, never grouped - #186
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The first weekly sweep (PRs #183/#184) grouped majors the constitution treats as decisions: MassTransit 9 (commercial license), Roslyn 5 + PublicApiAnalyzers 5.6 (record-synthesized members must join PublicAPI files), vitest 4 (coverage counted differently -> the 97% console gate must be re-earned, not lowered), TypeScript 7, xunit runner 4, Microsoft.OpenApi 3. Library groups now take minor/patch only; GitHub Actions majors stay automated (runner-driven, CI-proven). The deferred majors land in open-threads as T24 with their triggers and proofs -- nothing is postponed without a ledger row. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Group-level update-types [minor, patch] instead of an ignore rule: a major arrives as its own visible, individually decidable PR (and a closed one is not recreated), where a blanket ignore would also suppress security majors. Limits bound the noise. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The first weekly dependabot sweep (2026-08-26) grouped semver-majors the constitution treats as decisions, not bumps:
gates/integrationfailures on that PR), xunit.runner 2→4, Microsoft.OpenApi 2→3.Change
Group-level
update-types: [minor, patch]on the nuget and console npm groups — the mockifyr-proven pattern: weekly automation takes minor/patch in one grouped PR; a major arrives as its OWN pull request, visible and individually decidable, and a closed one is not recreated. (A blanketignorewas considered and rejected — it would also suppress majors that carry security fixes.)open-pull-requests-limit: 3bounds the noise. GitHub Actions majors stay grouped (runner-driven, CI-proven — the five from this sweep merged green).Ledger
The deferred majors land as T24 in
docs/strategy/open-threads.mdwith trigger (owner decision on MassTransit 9 licensing; per-major pull) and proof (full gate set green per major; console coverage ≥97 under the NEW counter before vitest 4 merges). PRs #183/#184 will be closed pointing here; dependabot re-opens the minor/patch-only groups on the next weekly run.🤖 Generated with Claude Code