Tame Dependabot: Group Updates Monthly to Slash PR Noise
Microsoft’s GCToolkit project showed Dependabot’s default daily checks flooded the repo with a PR for every patch update, consuming review time and CI cycles. Switching to a monthly schedule and using Dependabot’s ‘groups’ feature to bundle all changes into a single PR cut the noise while keeping security fixes fast— a three‑step config any repo can adopt.