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+# To get started with Dependabot version updates, you'll need to specify which
+# package ecosystems to update and where the package manifests are located.
+# Please see the documentation for all configuration options:
+# https://docs.github.com/github/administering-a-repository/configuration-options-for-dependency-updates
+
+# docs
+# https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "cargo"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      # We release on Tuesdays and open dependabot PRs will rebase after the
+      # version bump and thus consume unnecessary workers during release, thus
+      # let's open new ones on Wednesday
+      day: "wednesday"
+    ignore:
+      - dependency-name: "*"
+        update-types: ["version-update:semver-patch"]
+    groups:
+      # Only update polars as a whole as there are many subcrates that need to
+      # be updated at once. We explicitly depend on some of them, so batch their
+      # updates to not take up dependabot PR slots with dysfunctional PRs
+      polars:
+        patterns:
+          - "polars"
+          - "polars-*"
+  - package-ecosystem: "github-actions"
+    directory: "/"
+    schedule:
+      interval: "weekly"
+      day: "wednesday"