Replace enabled:false with skipReason:x

[rarkins]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

In most cases users would benefit from knowing "why" dependencies or updates were skipped. Perhaps we should encourage the use of skipReason with a free text value instead of enabled:false?

Did you already have any implementation ideas?

We could replace all our internal enabled: false with descriptive skipReason values. We could also massage people's configs to change enabled: false to skipReason: "disabled" or skipReason: "disabled by packageRules".

I'm also considering whether we could even include a skipReason for every matched fileMatch result, such as:

• ignorePaths (if the fileMatch has a hit but so does ignorePaths)
• no dependencies (if the manager finds no dependencies)
• parsing failure (if manager can't parse the file)
  etc.

The main idea is bringing more visibility, and such results could also be put into a dependencies dashboard.

I've also experienced that some users find "enabled: false" to be unintuitive (because of the negative nature of it I guess).

Are there any workarounds or alternative ideas you've tried to avoid needing this feature?

This is a nice-to-have, the current way works but is not as readable.

Is this a feature you'd be interested in implementing yourself?

Maybe

[viceice]

Good idea, this would really help while searching the logs.