Disable Renovate; the repo is no longer maintained - #793
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Rather than migrate onto the shared preset the other 22 repos now use, turn Renovate off. The old config set prConcurrentLimit: 3 and three Renovate PRs have sat open since 2024, so Renovate has been unable to open anything new since March 2025 - the rule set was already inert. Migrating would have been worse than disabling: clearing the deadlock restarts the PR flow and the shared preset auto-merges minors, producing auto-merged commits on a repo nobody releases from. Dependency updates only reach users via a publish, and the last was v5.0.0 in July 2024. Dependabot still reports security advisories.
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Overview
Pleasantest is no longer actively maintained, so this turns Renovate off here rather than migrating it onto the shared preset the other 22 Cloud Four repos now use (cloudfour/renovate-config#1).
The practical argument is that Renovate had already stopped doing anything useful. The old config set
prConcurrentLimit: 3, and three Renovate PRs have sat open since 2024 (#789, #791, #792) — so Renovate has been unable to open a new PR since March 2025. The elaborate rule set was inert, just noisily so.Migrating instead of disabling would have made things worse, not better: clearing the concurrency deadlock would restart the PR flow, and the shared preset auto-merges patch and minor updates. That means a stream of auto-merged commits on a repo nobody is releasing from. Dependency updates only reach users through a publish, and the last one was v5.0.0 in July 2024.
Security coverage is unaffected — Dependabot still reports advisories, which is the part that matters for an unmaintained public package.
The reasoning lives in a
descriptionfield in the config itself, along with the one-lineextendsneeded to re-enable maintenance, so whoever looks at this next doesn't have to find this PR.Screenshots
Testing
.renovaterc.jsonon this branch and read thedescription— it should explain why Renovate is off and how to turn it back onCloses the last open item in cloudfour/renovate-config#1