ci: configure Renovate to ignore docs updates
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Current evaluation
Merged PR canonical/charmcraft#2778 (approved by 2 reviewers) adds a Renovate ignorePaths entry for docs/**, so Renovate stops opening dependency update PRs that only touch documentation. One-line change to Renovate config.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: The PR itself was the resolution and it was merged into main, with the renovate/validate checks passing on the config change and conventional-commit policy met. The +1/-0 diff adds ignorePaths: docs/** to the Renovate configuration.
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Issue body
Configure Renovate with ignorePaths for docs/** so docs-only dependency update PRs are not created.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR canonical/charmcraft#2778 (approved by 2 reviewers) adds a Renovate ignorePaths entry for docs/**, so Renovate stops opening dependency update PRs that only touch documentation. One-line change to Renovate config. | |
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Merged PR canonical/charmcraft#2778, adding ignorePaths for docs/** to stop Renovate from opening docs-only dependency update PRs. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged. Configured Renovate to ignore documentation updates via ignorePaths for docs/**, preventing unnecessary dependency update pull requests for docs-only changes. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 |
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needs review | Configures Renovate to ignore dependency updates in the docs/** directory, preventing unnecessary documentation-only PRs. Currently open with no comments or reviews. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #111 feat(renovate): don't check docs directory | starflow | merged | Renovate now ignores docs/requirements.txt, preventing unwanted starter-pack dependency update PRs; PR #111 was merged in commit db2a855. | |
| #949 fix(renovate): don't update dependencies in docs spread tests | rockcraft | closed | PR #949 (lengau) proposed a 3-line .github/renovate.json5 change to exclude docs spread-test deps from Renovate, requested in #935. Closed unmerged; source-spread-tests failed and medubelko asked to reconsider. | |
| #115 feat: ignore test directories with renovate | starflow | merged | Merged PR #115 as commit a5b244d, excluding test directories from Renovate scans so intentionally outdated test dependencies remain unchanged. | |
| #1607 build(deps): update requirements | charmcraft | merged | Merged consolidated Renovate dependency updates in canonical/charmcraft#1607 via commit 685b159b, changing three files (+13/-12). | |
| #516 ci: fix renovate config | craft-providers | merged | Merged PR #516 as commit 8fd003c, moving a package group to the correct Renovate config section so dependency updates run again. | |
| #2823 chore: configure renovate to ignore requirements files under tests/ | charmcraft | merged | PR #2823 merged, adding `tests/**` to ignorePaths in .github/renovate.json5 so Renovate stops raising updates for test-fixture requirements files. | |
| #952 Include requirements-* files in Renovate config | charmcraft | closed | Closed unmerged after being opened in the wrong spot; the Renovate update was merged instead through canonical/charmcraft#953 in commit f15f7c60. | |
| #944 Configure Renovate | charmcraft | merged | PR #944 merged as commit 7adab896, adding Renovate configuration to enable automated dependency-update pull requests through the Renovate GitHub app. | |
| #1441 ci(deps): tell renovate to ignore pydantic | charmcraft | merged | Merged PR #1441 as commit 76807c11, configuring Renovate to ignore pydantic updates in two files. | |
| #298 fix: update renovate config | starbase | merged | Merged as commit 4918168, updating Renovate configuration to fix #297 and restore dependency-update automation. |