fix(deps): add twice-weekly Renovate schedule for wrapper packages

[JacobPEvans]

PR #147: Twice-Weekly Renovate Schedule for Wrapper Packages

Summary

• Add twice-weekly schedule (Mon + Thu) for custom.regex and pep621 managers in the shared Renovate preset
• Enable lockFileMaintenance with twice-weekly schedule
• Add explicit timezone (America/Chicago) for predictable schedule evaluation
• All repos inheriting this preset benefit automatically

Why

Weekly Monday-only schedule + 3-day release age soak = up to 10 days max staleness for PyPI/npm
wrapper packages. This was discovered when a Python wrapper package was at 1.6.0 locally while
1.8.0 was available on PyPI. Adding Thursday reduces max staleness to ~6.5 days.

Changes

• renovate-presets.json: Add timezone, lockFileMaintenance, and two schedule packageRules

Test plan

• Verify Renovate validates the updated preset without errors (check Dependency Dashboard)
• Confirm Thursday schedule entries appear in downstream repo dashboards
• Lock file maintenance PRs should appear on both Monday and Thursday

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This pull request updates the shared Renovate configuration to improve the frequency of dependency updates and lock file maintenance. By introducing a second weekly check-in, the changes aim to reduce the window of staleness for specific wrapper packages without increasing maintenance noise.

Highlights

• Lock File Maintenance: Enabled lock file maintenance with a twice-weekly schedule (Monday and Thursday) in the shared preset.
• Dependency Update Frequency: Added a twice-weekly schedule for custom.regex and pep621 managers to reduce maximum dependency staleness.

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Pull request overview

Updates the org-wide Renovate preset to reduce dependency “staleness” by increasing cadence for certain managers and enabling scheduled lockfile maintenance across downstream repositories.

Changes:

• Enable Renovate lockFileMaintenance and schedule it twice weekly (Mon/Thu).
• Add twice-weekly schedules for custom.regex and pep621 managers.

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