Group minor updates with patch updates in Renovate - #564
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Pull request overview
Updates Renovate configuration to reduce PR churn by grouping minor dependency updates together with the existing weekly patch update group, while keeping OpenTelemetry dependencies ungrouped so they continue to land individually.
Changes:
- Expand the weekly “all patch versions” group to include minor updates.
- Exclude OpenTelemetry Maven and GitHub-sourced dependencies from that weekly group via package name patterns.
- Rename/comment the group to reflect the new behavior and the OpenTelemetry exception.
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Renovate now groups minor updates into the same weekly pull request as patch updates, instead of opening one for every minor release the moment it ships. That was 27 ungrouped pull requests in the last 90 days: checkstyle took five to go from 13.5 to 13.9, and spotless five more to go from 8.6 to 8.10.
OpenTelemetry updates are excluded and keep arriving individually and immediately, including their patch updates, which is what dogfooding and cascaded releases need.
otel/weaverand other OpenTelemetry images stay in the group, since they are test infrastructure rather than cascaded releases.Major updates are unaffected and still get their own pull request. This matches what opentelemetry-java already does.