🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
C-Rank Grade: A (Welcoming) - 64/100
External PR Merge Rate: 54%
Response Time: 6h
First Timer Success: 38%
dependabot/dependabot-core has a recorded first-timer success rate of 37.5%. Repositories ranked A typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
Maintainers in dependabot/dependabot-core respond to incoming external pull requests in approximately 5.9 hours on average. Keeping PRs focused on single tasks and ensuring tests pass helps maintainers review faster.
The C-Rank™ system evaluates GitHub projects on a 0–100 scale using real data: PR merge rates, review turnaround time, active maintainer presence, and first-time contributor success. A score of 64.2 places dependabot/dependabot-core in the A tier.
The external contributor pull request merge rate for dependabot/dependabot-core is 53.8%, based on public PR activity from non-core contributors.
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Maintainer Strategy: Maintainer Sweet Spot: PRs under 150 lines merge in ~4 hours (67% approval). Large PRs (>500 lines) take ~28 hours (24% approval). Keep your diff compact for rapid review.
Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Package ecosystem Helm (package-ecosystem: helm) Package manager version Dependabot CLI v1.93.0, updater image ghcr.io/dependabot/dependabot-updater-helm@sha256:bb4961986f6a76b68456f67ad2aadd589ec9c70f73b44393b11d7d237eaaefa5 Manifest location and content before the Dependabot update Any values file whose image sits inside a list. That is the shape of every pod template passed through values, for example the gha-runner-scale-set chart's runner container: template: spec: containers: - name: runner image: ghcr.io/actions/actions-runner:2.335.1 dependabot.yml content version: 2 updates: - package-ecosystem: helm directory: /deploy/infrastructure/runners/base schedule: interval: weekly What you expected to see, versus what you actually saw Expected: an image inside a list is detected and updated, the same as an image at a map path. Actual: it is never detected. With the reproduct
Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Feature description Summary For pip, Poetry, pipenv, pip-compile, and uv, Dependabot security updates cannot fix a vulnerable transitive dependency when a direct dependency caps it. The update fails with update_not_possible ("One or more other dependencies require a version that is incompatible with this update"). The updater's unlock ladder in updater/lib/dependabot/updater/operations/create_security_update_pull_request.rb would try requirements_to_unlock: :all next, but Dependabot::Python::UpdateChecker#latest_version_resolvable_with_full_unlock? is hardcoded to false and #updated_dependencies_after_full_unlock raises NotImplementedError. Dependabot::Uv::UpdateChecker inherits both. I'm requesting that the Python checker implement full unlock, so that a security update can raise the capping parent's constraint together with the transitive fix, the way npm has done since 2022. History The stub dates to Decembe
Is there an existing issue for this? I have searched the existing issues Package ecosystem bun Package manager version bun 1.4 Language version bun 1.4 Manifest location and content before the Dependabot update No response dependabot.yml content --- # https://docs.github.com/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file version: 2 updates: - package-ecosystem: "bun" directory: "/" schedule: interval: "monthly" day: "monday" time: "09:00" timezone: "Asia/Singapore" commit-message: prefix: "build" groups: app-dependencies: patterns: - "*" update-types: - "minor" - "patch" - package-ecosystem: "docker" directory: "/" schedule: interval: "monthly" day: "monday" time: "09:00" timezone: "Asia/Singapore" commit-message: prefix: "ci" groups: docker-deps: patterns:
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Currently, maintainers of dependabot/dependabot-core acknowledge new external contributions in approximately 5 hours. Out of all submitted pull requests from non-core authors in the last 180-day window, 53.8% were successfully merged into the primary branch.
dependabot/dependabot-core has a recorded first-timer success rate of 37.5%. Repositories ranked Welcoming typically provide actionable feedback during code reviews and actively nurture new community contributors.
The initial maintainer response time averages ~5 hours. Keeping PRs scoped to single concerns and ensuring CI checks succeed will optimize review turnaround.
The C-Rank™ index scores repositories on a 0 to 100 scale using an objective formula: external PR merge rates, initial response speed, active maintainer count, and first-time contributor retention. A score of 64.2 places dependabot/dependabot-core in the Welcoming tier.
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