Standardize renovate.json and add dependabot assignees

[kernelsam]

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Code Review Analysis

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Code Quality

✅ Code follows style guide - The changes are configuration files (YAML and JSON) that follow standard formatting conventions for their respective formats.

✅ No commented-out code - No commented code present.

✅ Meaningful variable names - Configuration keys are clear and follow standard naming conventions (assignees, matchPackagePrefixes, etc.).

✅ DRY principle followed - No code duplication; each configuration is defined once.

✅ Identify Defects - No bugs, logic errors, or security vulnerabilities detected. The changes are straightforward configuration updates:

• Adding assignees to dependabot updates
• Excluding senzing packages from renovate's minimum release age requirement
• Adding usernames to cspell dictionary
• Minor formatting change to ignorePaths (multi-line array)

✅ Project memory configuration - No .claude/CLAUDE.md file present in the repository to consider.

Testing

⚠️ N/A - These are configuration file changes that don't require traditional unit/integration tests. However, the changes should be validated:

• Dependabot will validate .github/dependabot.yml syntax on next run
• Renovate will validate .github/renovate.json syntax on next run
• VSCode will validate .vscode/cspell.json on next editor launch

Documentation

✅ Documentation updates - Configuration changes are self-documenting. No readme or changelog updates needed for dependency bot configuration tweaks.

✅ Markdown files - No markdown files modified in this PR.

⚠️ CHANGELOG.md - Not updated, but these internal configuration changes typically don't warrant changelog entries as they don't affect end users or the application's functionality.

Security

✅ No hardcoded credentials - No sensitive information added.

✅ Input validation - Configuration files will be validated by their respective tools.

✅ Proper error handling - N/A for configuration files.

✅ No sensitive data in logs - Usernames are public GitHub identifiers, not sensitive.

✅ No license files or AQAAAD strings - No .lic files or license strings detected.

Specific Observations

.github/dependabot.yml (lines 6-8, 15-17)

✅ Adds assignees for automated dependency updates:

• kernelsam for GitHub Actions updates
• docktermj for Python pip updates

.github/renovate.json (line 14)

✅ Adds exclusion pattern !senzing/ to prevent internal Senzing packages from being subject to the 21-day release age requirement. This makes sense for internal packages where you control the release cycle.

.vscode/cspell.json (lines 16, 20, 43-46)

✅ Adds the two usernames to the spell checker dictionary and reformats ignorePaths to multi-line format for better readability.

Summary

Overall Assessment: ✅ APPROVED

All changes are configuration improvements with no code quality, security, or functional concerns. The modifications standardize dependency bot configurations and improve maintainability by:

1. Ensuring the right people are notified for dependency updates
2. Allowing internal packages to bypass external release age requirements
3. Preventing false-positive spelling errors for contributor usernames

No blocking issues identified.

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