Checkbox on the PR to force pending versions

[taraspos]

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Summary

If minimumReleaseAge setting is used, then pending version updates are paused until age criteria is satisfied:

• (What is the "Pending" column in the version table of PR descriptions? #30171)

Usually, it is possible to force PR creation by checking the checkbox in the "Dependency Dashboard" issue.

However, if PR is already open, but there are newer version that didn't pass the minimumReleaseAge , you can see them in the table in "Pending" column. In this case there is no way to force update to the latest one.

For example:

Package	Update	Change	Pending
loki (source)	patch	6.6.4 -> 6.6.5	6.7.1 (+2)

Would be great to have a way to force upgrade to the latest one in this case.

Proposal

PRs already have checkbox that allows you to rebase it:

• If you want to rebase/retry this PR, check this box

Having similar one that could force upgrade to the pending version, would solve the problem:

• If you want to update to the Pending version ignoring minimumReleaseAge setting, check this box

[HonkingGoose]

The maintainer wants to add a checkbox somewhere to force open pending PRs, see:

• Allow forcing of pending version when internalChecksFilter=strict #21719

It's not clear to me where that checkbox will go, so I asked about it in the linked issue. 😄

[mrclrchtr]

That's a feature I would very much like to have. 🚀