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Summary

Config-only change to .github/dependabot.yml. Majors get their own group PR per ecosystem; the groups we merge take minor and patch only.

 nuget (/):
+  majors            patterns: *            update-types: [major]
   maui, hotchocolate, sil, test, microsoft-dotnet
+                                           update-types: [minor, patch]
   other             patterns: *            update-types: [minor, patch]
+                    exclude-patterns: Microsoft.*, System.*, HotChocolate*, SIL.*, <test group>

 npm (/frontend):
+  majors            patterns: *            update-types: [major]
   production-dependencies   dependency-type: production
+                                           update-types: [minor, patch]
   development-dependencies  dependency-type: development
+                                           update-types: [minor, patch]

Why the NuGet exclude-patterns: Dependabot runs the one nuget entry as two discovered directories (/backend for the projects, /.config for dotnet-tools.json). The /.config job sees every CPM package too, and its catch-all other group collected all 60 updates and superseded the sil, hotchocolate, microsoft-dotnet and test group PRs:

#2834 "other" (dot-config/…)  superseded  #2828 hotchocolate
                                          #2829 sil
                                          #2831 test
                                          #2833 microsoft-dotnet
#2810 "other" (dot-config/…)  superseded  #2805, #2807, #2808, #2809 the week before

Excluding the named groups' patterns from other stops that overlap.

Evidence

• Before: Bump the other group with 60 updates #2834 (60 NuGet updates, 10 majors, CI red), Bump the production-dependencies group across 1 directory with 38 updates #2804/Bump the development-dependencies group across 1 directory with 51 updates #2806 (38 and 51 npm updates, mostly majors, CI red). Each needed hand-trimming (Bump NuGet minor and patch versions from the Dependabot "other" group #2840, Bump the npm_and_yarn group across 3 directories with 10 updates #2827) before it could merge.
  After: YAML parses with the expected groups: nuget [majors, maui, hotchocolate, sil, test, microsoft-dotnet, other], npm /frontend [majors, production-dependencies, development-dependencies]. GitHub validates the schema on push; the real proof is the next Dependabot run, which should replace Bump the production-dependencies group across 1 directory with 39 updates #2841 and Bump the development-dependencies group across 1 directory with 51 updates #2806 with a mergeable minor/patch PR each plus one majors PR.

Merge Danger

Door: two-way

Revert the file and Dependabot regroups on its next run.

Blast Radius: low

Affects only which PRs Dependabot opens. Security updates are unaffected (they bypass version-update grouping). One caveat: a 0.x minor bump (e.g. OpenTelemetry JS 0.221 to 0.300) counts as "minor" to Dependabot, so breaking 0.x bumps can still land in the minor/patch groups.

Test plan

• GitHub's dependabot.yml validation passes on the PR
• After merge: @dependabot recreate on Bump the production-dependencies group across 1 directory with 39 updates #2841 and Bump the development-dependencies group across 1 directory with 51 updates #2806 (or wait for Monday) and confirm majors land in a separate PR

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Walkthrough

The Dependabot configuration adds major-update groups for NuGet and frontend npm dependencies. Existing NuGet and frontend npm groups now accept only minor and patch updates. The NuGet other group excludes packages assigned to the Microsoft/.NET, HotChocolate, SIL, and test groups.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Other

Possibly related PRs

• sillsdev/languageforge-lexbox#2784: Adds a weekly root npm Dependabot entry in the same configuration file; this PR changes the update grouping rules.

Suggested reviewers: hahn-kev

Merge Risk: Low · up to f5d22

This change only affects how Dependabot groups and opens dependency update PRs. The frontend split may delay some PRs while another group's PR is open, and watching the next Dependabot run would confirm it. Nothing in the product or deployment is affected, so the merge risk is low.

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Revised: the majors groups are gone. NuGet and /frontend npm now ignore version-update:semver-major outright, and the per-group update-types restrictions went with them (redundant once majors are ignored). Major upgrades are deliberate hand work; an always-red majors PR would just be noise.

This also makes the CodeRabbit concern moot: there are no overlapping update-types groups left for dependabot-core#10492 to bite.

Caveat, noted in the file header: ignore rules apply to security updates too, so a fix only shipped in a new major has to be picked up manually. The NuGet other exclude-patterns (the /.config superseding problem) are unchanged.