Confused about contents of .github directory in this repo

[SethTisue]

% tree .github
.github
├── dependabot.yml
├── release-drafter.yml
└── workflows
    ├── ci.yml
    ├── release-drafter.yml
    └── release.yml

why are there two release-drafter.yml files?

why is dependabot.yml not under workflows?

[eed3si9n]

Re: dependabot.yml - https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuring-dependabot-version-updates

You enable Dependabot version updates by checking a dependabot.yml configuration file in to your repository's .github directory.

In Scala ecosystem, this is used to bump the versions of the GitHub Actions.

[SethTisue]

as for where release-drafter goes, the repos on my hard drive are about equally divided:

 ls */.github/release-drafter.y* | wc -l
      25
% ls */.github/workflows/release-drafter.y* | wc -l
      23

[mkurz]

why are there two release-drafter.yml files?

One is the GitHub actions workflow: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-ci-release/blob/main/.github/workflows/release-drafter.yml
The other one is the default release drafter config file: https://github.com/sbt/sbt-ci-release/blob/main/.github/release-drafter.yml
See docs:

Once you’ve added Release Drafter to your repository, it must be enabled by adding a .github/release-drafter.yml configuration file to each repository. The configuration file must reside in your default branch, no other configurations will be accepted.

You can change the name/location of the release drafter config file in the workflow with:

config-name: my-release-drafter-config.yml
# or in a sub-folder of .github
config-name: release-drafts/my-release-drafter-config.yml

[SethTisue]

thanks guys