Group weekly minor Renovate updates into the patch PR

[trask]

Minor dependency updates were already scheduled for Tuesday mornings, but they had no groupName, so each one opened its own pull request, roughly 37 per 90 days all arriving in the same window. They now share the patch group, renamed all patch and minor versions, so that burst becomes a single pull request.

Major updates still get their own pull request each, on the same weekly schedule.

OpenTelemetry updates keep arriving individually and immediately, across patch, minor, and major, so dogfooding and cascaded releases are never batched. Patch updates carried no exclusion before, which meant OpenTelemetry patches were grouped against the intent; that is fixed here.

otel/opentelemetry-collector-contrib and otel/weaver image bumps join the weekly group deliberately, since they are test infrastructure rather than cascaded releases.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Updates Renovate configuration to reduce dependency-update PR noise by grouping weekly minor updates into the existing weekly patch PR group, while aiming to keep OpenTelemetry “dogfooding” updates unbatched.

Changes:

• Renames the weekly patch group to all patch and minor versions.
• Adds a weekly, grouped rule for minor updates using the same group/schedule as patch updates.
• Extends the OpenTelemetry-related exclusions to the patch and major scheduling rules (and adds open-telemetry/** to the existing exclusion set).

Suppressed comments (2)

.github/renovate.json5:68

• matchPackageNames does not support negation via leading !, so this rule likely won’t match anything (and the intended OpenTelemetry exclusions won’t apply). Use excludePackageNames to exclude these dependencies while still matching major updates for weekly scheduling.

      matchPackageNames: [
        '!io.opentelemetry:**',
        '!io.opentelemetry.*:**',
        '!open-telemetry/**',
      ],

.github/renovate.json5:54

• matchPackageNames does not support negation via leading !, so this rule likely won’t match anything (and the intended OpenTelemetry exclusions won’t apply). Use excludePackageNames to exclude these dependencies while still matching minor updates broadly.

      matchPackageNames: [
        '!io.opentelemetry:**',
        '!io.opentelemetry.*:**',
        '!open-telemetry/**',
      ],

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