chore: disable dependabot for dependencies upgrades #992
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Description of your changes
As discussed in today's maintainer's meeting this PR proposes a change that aims at disabling dependabot for this repository.
The rationale behind this change is purely rooted in safekeeping maintainer's focus by avoiding unnecessary noise coming from dependencies that change very often. The impact of this change should not be too big as one of the project's tenet is to limit dependencies, so most of the dependency updates that we receive are instead related to development dependencies.
The maintainers will be updating dependencies every 3 months.
At the moment Dependabot's config allows a maximum schedule of one month (source), so we will be disabling Dependabot altogether and perform the updates manually every quarter.
Surprisingly there's very little information available on how to disable dependabot. The only info I could find kind of related is in this page where it's mentioned that:
Assuming that the contrary is true, removing the file should also disable Dependabot.
How to verify this change
See if Dependabot does not open any new PR in the coming weeks.
Related issues, RFCs
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PR status
Is this ready for review?: YES
Is it a breaking change?: NO
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