Stop Renovate holding docker image updates on a check that can never pass - #24848
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…pass ghcr.io and registry.ddbuild.io do not return release timestamps, and since Renovate 42 a missing timestamp counts as never having aged, so the 7-day renovate/stability-days check on those images stays pending forever. Scope minimumReleaseAgeBehaviour to timestamp-optional for that group, which keeps the age check wherever a registry does publish timestamps. Also enable the dependency dashboard, so updates held back by the age check are visible instead of just absent.
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What does this PR do?
minimumReleaseAgeBehaviour: "timestamp-optional"to the docker-images Renovate group.Motivation
The 7-day
minimumReleaseAgeon the docker-images group can never be satisfied. Renovate'sdockerdatasource only reads release timestamps from Docker Hub, and the two images tracked in.gitlab/tagger/Dockerfilecome fromghcr.io(renovate#39064) andregistry.ddbuild.io. Since Renovate 42,minimumReleaseAgeBehaviourdefaults totimestamp-required, so a release with no timestamp is treated as not yet aged, andrenovate/stability-daysstays pending indefinitely rather than for 7 days. #24835 is an example.timestamp-optionalrather than droppingminimumReleaseAge, so the age check still applies if an image from a registry that does publish timestamps is added to the group later.The dependency dashboard makes updates held back by the age check visible. Without it there is no way to tell "held back" from "nothing to update" short of reading the job log.
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