REQUEST: Repository maintenance on opentelemetry-collector-releases

[mowies]

Affected Repository

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases

Requested changes

1. Enable the renovate app for the repo
2. ensure branch protection rules for renovatebot/ branches are setup to allow them to be updated main/docs/how-to-configure-new-repository.md#branch-protection-rule-renovate

Purpose

The releases repo would like to start using renovate for dependency management.

Expected Duration

permanently

Repository Maintainers

• @open-telemetry/collector-maintainers
• @open-telemetry/collector-contrib-maintainers

[mx-psi]

I support this

[trask]

sorry for the delay, I'll do this tomorrow if no one picks it up before then

[trask]

I've installed the app, and set up the branch protections

https://developer.mend.io/github/open-telemetry reports that opentelemetry-collector-releases status is "onboarding"

I think it's supposed to send a PR to onboard the repo, but it looks like there is an old PR in the repo from a prior onboarding: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases#426

and that PR's branch is also still around renovate/configure

based on https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/main/docs/usage/getting-started/installing-onboarding.md#nuke-config-and-re-onboard, I'm going to rename the old renovate onboarding PR and delete that PR's branch...

[trask]

I've renamed the old renovate onboarding PR: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases#426

and deleted that PR's branch: renovate/configure

based on https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate/blob/main/docs/usage/getting-started/installing-onboarding.md#nuke-config-and-re-onboard, it sounded like it could take a few hours for Renovate to notice and send a new onboarding PR

so I uninstalled and re-installed the app to the opentelemetry-collector-releases repository to try to trigger re-onbarding sooner, but that didn't seem to speed up the process

so I manually triggered a renovate scan at https://developer.mend.io/github/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases, and that did the trick and (re-)created the onboarding PR: open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases#709

[mowies]

thanks for going through that trouble 😅

[trask]

@mowies let us know if everything is good, and if it's ok to close this issue, thanks!

[mowies]

I would have closed this when the configuration PR is merged to make sure that it all works correctly. But we can close now as well and I'll reopen if there's any issues.

[mowies]

As a follow-up to this, we'll need to also disable dependabot in the releases repo after we made sure that everything works with renovate. Should I create a separate issue for that or do we re-use this one here @trask ?

[trask]

sure, we can keep this issue open until you're able to confirm everything is working correctly

IIRC, you disable dependabot by removing the .github/dependabot.yml file from the repo. Try that when you're ready, and check if that is reflected here: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-releases/network/updates

[mowies]

Ok I can confirm that everything works as expected.
Will remove the dependabot file next.