Improve Renovate update config for `mkdocs-material`

[HonkingGoose]

What would you like to be able to do?

Right now I have to manually request updates to mkdocs-material, for minor bumps from the maintainers of this repository.

I don't know what the original reasoning was to require dashboard approval for minor Python package updates?

I would much rather have Renovate open update PRs for mkdocs-material automatically, and then wait for our approval. This would reduce the need for me to bother you to update. 😄

Did you already have any implementation ideas?

We get our Renovate config from two places:

• Global config: https://github.com/renovatebot/.github/blob/main/default.json
• Local config: https://github.com/renovatebot/renovatebot.github.io/blob/main/renovate.json

I think we can make a custom packageRule for just mkdocs-material and put it at the bottom of the packageRules array?

I was thinking of defining the rules for mkdocs-material like this:

• Keep stabilityDays at 3
• Always open a PR for all update types automatically, even for major updates
• Always require PR approval
• Optional: automerge patch level updates "behind our back" via branch automerge, like we do now already

Let me know what you think of this idea, and what rules you would like to have?

[viceice]

Sounds good, suggest a PR in this repo to override settings

[viceice]

Intention was to not silently break our docs.

[viceice]

So remove approval and disable automerge for minor. 🤗