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Eric often runs short of usage on Mondays catching up on dependency PRs, and has plenty left by the end of the week. So Renovate now opens the weekly batch on Thursday and Friday (* * * * 4,5, Los Angeles time), and a Claude run merges it on Saturday. Security fixes are unaffected: vulnerabilityAlerts keeps its empty schedule.

The window is 48 hours, which keeps the org preset's rule that it be at least 24 hours wide: the hosted app runs every few hours on its own clock, and a narrow window misses its runs.

Only the schedule and the comments that describe it change.

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    • Automated maintenance batches are scheduled for Thursday and Friday instead of Sunday through Monday. Lock file maintenance remains enabled.
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    • The schedule is documented in the America/Los_Angeles time zone and is described as a window when updates may be opened, not a guaranteed delivery time. The documentation also notes that safe updates may be reviewed and merged on Saturday.

Eric often runs short of usage on Mondays catching up on dependency PRs, and has plenty left by the end of the week. So Renovate now opens the weekly batch on Thursday and Friday (`* * * * 4,5`, Los Angeles time), and a Claude run merges it on Saturday. Security fixes are unaffected: `vulnerabilityAlerts` keeps its empty schedule.

The window is 48 hours, which keeps the org preset's rule that it be at least 24 hours wide: the hosted app runs every few hours on its own clock, and a narrow window misses its runs.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The Renovate schedule configuration and documentation change the weekly window to Thursday and Friday. Lockfile maintenance remains enabled. CLAUDE.md documents a Saturday Claude run for safe updates and clarifies that the schedule does not guarantee PR delivery.

Changes: Renovate schedule

Layer / File(s) Summary
Update weekly schedule
.github/renovate.json5, CLAUDE.md
The weekly batch and lockfile-maintenance schedule change to Thursday and Friday. CLAUDE.md describes the allowed PR-opening window, a Saturday Claude run for safe updates, and the existing security-fix exception.

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The documented weekly window matches the inspected configuration. No actionable issue remains that should block merging.

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The title "Move the Renovate window to Thursday and Friday" matches the main change. The raw summary and PR objectives both say the weekly Renovate batch moves from Monday morning or Sunday noon to Thursday and Friday, with the schedule in .github/renovate.json5 and CLAUDE.md updated to match. The title is concise, specific, and free of noise.

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Review comments at @.github/renovate.json5:
- Line 35: Update the top-level Renovate configuration’s schedule to run
ordinary updates on Thursday and Friday, rather than limiting that schedule to
lockfile maintenance. Correct the nearby comments so they accurately describe
the configured window and do not attribute it to the preset.
- Line 35: Update the dependency scheduling guidance in CLAUDE.md to describe
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@coderabbitai Addressed: CLAUDE.md now describes the Thursday-Friday window as a window, not a delivery time (commit on this branch). On the other point: the top-level schedule is inherited from the org preset, which FactoryGameFan/.github#4 changed to "* * * * 4,5" and has since merged, so ordinary updates already use Thursday and Friday; only lockFileMaintenance needs its own copy because it does not inherit the preset's schedule. Please re-review and resolve.

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#!/bin/bash
set -uo pipefail
echo '=== Changed files and diff ==='
gh api repos/FactoryGameFan/FactorioTools/pulls/215/files --paginate --jq '.[] | {filename,status,patch}' || echo 'ERROR: failed to read PR files'
echo '=== CLAUDE.md structure and contents ==='
ast-grep outline CLAUDE.md 2>&1 || true
cat CLAUDE.md || echo 'ERROR: failed to read CLAUDE.md'
echo '=== Renovate configuration structure and contents ==='
ast-grep outline .github/renovate.json5 2>&1 || true
cat .github/renovate.json5 || echo 'ERROR: failed to read .github/renovate.json5'
echo '=== Review threads ==='
gh api graphql -F owner=FactoryGameFan -F name=FactorioTools -F number=215 -f query='
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gh api repos/FactoryGameFan/.github/pulls/4 --jq '{state,merged,merged_at,merge_commit_sha,base: .base.ref,title,body}' || echo 'ERROR: failed to read referenced PR'
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Renovate official documentation top-level schedule inheritance lockFileMaintenance default schedule override and vulnerabilityAlerts empty schedule timezone cron no guarantee PR creation

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printf '%s\n' "$preset" | jq -e '.timezone == "America/Los_Angeles" and .schedule == ["* * * * 4,5"] and .vulnerabilityAlerts.schedule == []' >/dev/null

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@wormeyman I rechecked both findings:

  • CLAUDE.md now describes the schedule as a window, not a guaranteed delivery time.
  • The current org preset schedules ordinary updates for Thursday and Friday. The local lockFileMaintenance schedule matches it. The preset keeps the empty schedule for vulnerability alerts.

I resolved the review thread. I did not rerun the validator; you reported that it passed. I’ll also trigger a fresh review.


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