Disable Renovate dashboard approval for all packages

[inverse]

Saw the comment on #380 (comment) and looked into why this is happening.

Looks like its caused by the dependencyDashboardApproval flag being set to true by default causing this behaviour.

Tried it on one of my repos and it did work https://github.com/inverse/cert-host-scraper

But I saw some rate limiting due to there being quite a few to create initially.

[alcohol]

Cheers! Was this documented somewhere? Do you have a link to the docs maybe?

[alcohol]

It doesn't look like is enabled by default? Or maybe I misread; https://docs.renovatebot.com/key-concepts/dashboard/#dependency-dashboard-approval-workflow

[inverse]

When I saw that too I thought it was disabled by default. Especially since we are extending config:recommended and it outlines the following:

To require manual approval for all updates, add the :dependencyDashboardApproval presets to the extends array in your Renovate configuration file:

src: https://docs.renovatebot.com/key-concepts/dashboard/#require-approval-for-all-updates

What made me realise this wasn't the case was from the mend debug log on their platform I saw things like

DEBUG: Branch renovate/pytest-8.x-lockfile creation is disabled because dependencyDashboardApproval=true

Which made me look into how to explicitly disable it, which lead to that PR.

Is it just me or is configuring this tool to make it work as expected is quite painful? Especially if from reading the docs the reality of the behaviour doesn't match.

[alcohol]

Is it just me or is configuring this tool to make it work as expected is quite painful? Especially if from reading the docs the reality of the behaviour doesn't match.

It's definitely not just you 🫣