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by dmitriid 1789 days ago
A must: allow Dependabot to merge PRs automatically. The reason to refuse this is frankly ridiculous [1]. For JS projects Dependabot is little less than a spammer, and the ability to automatically merge minor/patch versions is a must. Having to rely on third-party actions to do this is probably a larger security risk than letting people decide what PRs they want to automerge.

[1] https://github.com/dependabot/feedback/issues/954#issuecomme... and the original issue: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/1973

And why it doesn't fly: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/1973#is...