From 047f830b58cea379c013f1592b3705fd1bf387f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: kjuulh Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 16:09:54 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs(README): add motivation why this project should exist Signed-off-by: kjuulh --- README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index f1e4f61..e104758 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -14,6 +14,21 @@ image behind the scenes, this can be changed in the configuration. Do note that the contractor was run under a personal user, hence the same user replied +## Motivation + +Renovate by default if hosted yourself, is neither sharded, or runs on a +cron-job cycle. This leaves a lot to be desired from a developers point of view. +As it may take quite a long time for renovate to revisit the pull-request again, +if there is a lot of repositories enabled. + +This project intends to add an ad-hoc invocation of renovate for a single +repository, this enables developers to retrigger renovate whenever they want. + +The project is built to be integrated with github and gitea (initially), and +work in its pull-request system, so when a renovate pr shows up, you can either +manually retrigger it, or enable any of the options in the renovate dashboard, +and retrigger. + ## DISCLAIMER The project is still 0.x.x As such the api is subject to change, and the