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Is it possible to watch a 3rd party repository on Github, but ignore any notification generated by dependabot?

For example, I want to follow development in a repository like:

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet-instrumentation

But dependabot is generating too much noise:

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NOTE: There is a similar question for your own repositories, but I'm specifically curious about monitoring 3rd party repositories: How to disable or ignore Dependabot pull requests?

Philip Pittle
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I don't see a way to filter out Dependabot "bump" merge commits when monitoring the notification of a third party project.

But what you can do is dedicate your own repository in which you can set up your own GitHub Action, on a schedule.
It would, once a day (or more often):

VonC
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  • This sounds like a clever solution - but also, a decent amount of work; is this basically building my own notification system into GitHub? – Philip Pittle May 01 '23 at 17:17
  • @PhilipPittle For that particular use case, yes, you would build your own notification system, but using GitHub infrastructure. – VonC May 01 '23 at 17:39
  • @PhilipPittle I see this was downvoted, and was hoping for another answer with a better solution. I would still recommend for you to test the dedicated scheduled GitHub Action approach. – VonC May 01 '23 at 19:47
  • ya, I was hoping there was a way to use the built-in GitHub notification system, but sounds like it's just not possible. Thanks for this! – Philip Pittle May 02 '23 at 22:22