Feature discussion: Shuffle list of updates before selection

[jjtheo]

When using scala-steward with scala-steward-action on a large repository with lots of dependencies,
limiting the number of updates at each run can create and endless loop of updating the same first libs.

For example, there's 2 libs: com.a & com.b. com.a published a new version every two days.
If I run scala-steward every week, com.a will be the only one selected on each run. com.b will never be updated.

We could add an option in scala-steward to shuffle the list when selecting the next update to apply. This way, we would not loop on the same first updates of the list.

What do you think?

[alejandrohdezma]

Hey @jjtheo, sorry for the late response. For this case you could use the dependencyOverrides feature from the .scalasteward.conf file. With this, you can change the frequency for some of your artifacts, so instead of being updated every day, they're updated at your own pace:

dependencyOverrides = [
  {
    dependency = { groupId = "com.b" },
    pullRequests = { frequency = "1 day" },
  },
  {
    dependency = { groupId = "com.a" },
    pullRequests = { frequency = "30 day" },
  }
]

[jjtheo]

Hey thank you for the suggestion, this should be enough !
Along with the pullRequests.grouping option, I'll be able to tweak the config to be less annoyed by the frequently updated libs