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@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-08-16 16:28:43

My current company has settled on using #Gradle. It doesn’t make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints.
This week, I worked on improvements to a new project and set up #Renovate However, I quickly noticed that merges of new dependency versions failed the build. Here’s the fu…

Solving Gradle metadata and Renovate integration
My current company has settled on using Gradle. It doesn’t make me very happy, but you need to learn to work with constraints. Plus, I must admit that the developers who actually implemented the build files did a pretty good job overall: they used Kotlin instead of Groovy, they moved code to regular plugins, etc. This week, I worked on improvements to a new project and set up Renovate.

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-08-02 17:13:20

#GitHub #agenticworkflow and #renovatebot.
In this post, I want to describe the problem when combining the two, how I tried to fix it, and the correct solution.

GitHub agentic workflows and Renovate
I’ve been a big fan of Renovate for a couple of years already. Renovate scans your repositories, detects outdated package versions, and opens pull requests to automatically bump them. It’s similar to Dependabot in that it keeps your dependencies up to date. If I had to compare them in one sentence, I’d say Renovate is less integrated in the GitHub ecosystem, but handles more ecosystems and, more importantly, is extensible.