Turn migratePresets into a non-self-hosted property

[astellingwerf]

What would you like Renovate to be able to do?

The property migratePresets can be used to migrate presets (shocker, I know!). Today, the property is a self-hosted property. I'd like to suggest that I'd would be of more use if the property could also be set in a repo or preset context. More specifically: whenever implementable, it should be possible for a "legacy" preset to include a migratePresets declaration about itself and its replacement, in order to auto-discover the new prefered situation.

If you have any ideas on how this should be implemented, please tell us here.

Not really.

Is this a feature you are interested in implementing yourself?

Maybe

[viceice]

doesn't make sense, as you still need to run renovate on it.

so the request would be to allow migrating presets instead. so please update issue

[astellingwerf]

That's what configMigration=true achieves if migratePresets is also set. I don't see a reason to update the issue.

[rarkins]

So I think ideally it would have been called something like "remapPresets" because it doesn't migrate anything itself per se. But now that we have it, is it work renaming it?

[HonkingGoose]

If the current name is confusing we should pick a better name, even if that means more work. Good names help to understand what the bot is going to do. 😄

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Edit: I see we also mention remapPresets in this issue:

• Explicitly mention that migratePresets requires configMigration #16606

Do you want a new issue to track renaming migratePresets to remapPresets?

[rarkins]

Yes, let's have a separate issue. We need to remember to migrate self-hosted config in this case

[HonkingGoose]

Yes, let's have a separate issue.

Done, see:

• Rename migratePresets to remapPresets #19291

We need to remember to migrate self-hosted config in this case

Can you tell me where that todo belongs? I don't understand if it's for this issue or the new separate issue. 🙈

[rarkins]

Within the same issue

[Finkregh]

This would be really helpful, as it would allow rename files:

• enable configMigration in the "old" file (yes, might lead to other PRs being created, but that's OK in my case)
• set migratePresets in the "old" file to reference the new/renamed file