Renovate PR not being created and repo not showing up in dashboard

[JordanWeatherby]

What would you like help with?

I would like help with my configuration

How are you running Renovate?

Mend Renovate hosted app on github.com

If you're self-hosting Renovate, tell us which platform (GitHub, GitLab, etc) and which version of Renovate.

No response

Please tell us more about your question or problem

Hi, we have renovate working fine on two repos and I tried to add it to a third repo a few days ago, https://github.com/NetPurpose/public-website-cms

But it is not showing up in our https://developer.mend.io/github/NetPurpose dashboard and no PR has been made

Hope someone has any idea why this is happening

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[HonkingGoose]

Silly idea incoming! 🙃 Maybe you can "force" Renovate to start working, by putting a Renovate config file in your repository?

Steps for silly idea:

1. Create a renovate.json file in your repository with this basic config in it:

   {
     "extends": ["config:recommended"]
   }

2. Wait a bit for Renovate to maybe pick up the repository, and create a Dependency Dashboard and update PRs.
3. Customize the configuration to your liking.
4. Enjoy working Renovate bot.

If my silly idea does not work, you'll have to wait for a maintainer to respond. 😉

[JordanWeatherby]

Ah it actually finally made the PR last night, not sure why it took days to happen but at least it has finally happened!

[HonkingGoose]

Yay! 🥳 You should use Renovate's onboarding PR workflow then, that's better than my silly idea! 😉

The Renovate docs, known limitations also say that it can take some time for Renovate to start working.