Daily: Run on weekend too

[hfhbd]

Why does dependabot only run on weekdays? A bot could run everyday, including weekends.

From the docs:

daily—runs on every weekday, Monday to Friday.

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#scheduleinterval

[rwojsznis]

Was surprised this is not configurable as well 🤔 you shouldn't really assume that workweek always happens between Monday and Friday in the first place 🙈

[per1234]

There is a proposal here that would add the needed flexible configuration: dependabot/dependabot-core#6339

[captn3m0]

I'd raised this with the GitHub Team at a community meetup, and they were surprised (hadn't heard this feedback before).

Another usecase is that "open-source" does not necessarily happen on a workweek - open-source projects need daily builds, as that work often happens outside of the regular workweek.

[isaacbowen]

Oh fantastic! I'm so glad you got to share this with them! Thank you for doing that!

One thousand percent agreed with the point about daily builds being normal for open-source. (Also, many-other-kinds-of-source.)

[captn3m0]

Update: This should be resolved now with cron expressions getting supported: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-22-dependabot-now-lets-you-schedule-update-frequencies-with-cron-expressions/

It doesn't seem to be documented yet, so I've filed an issue: github/docs#37712