Use native Dependabot grouping

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Replace the repository's manual combined-PR workflow with native Dependabot grouping, keeping Gradle dependency updates and GitHub Actions updates in separate pull requests.

What changes

• Create separate weekly Monday groups for eligible Gradle version updates and GitHub Actions version updates, so failures in one batch do not block the other.
• Apply a seven-day cooldown to version updates; security updates continue to be handled separately.
• Cover root Gradle plugins, core, every current module, examples, smoke tests, workflows, and composite actions.
• Preserve compatibility exclusions at their existing directory scope, while consolidating directories that share the same policy.
• Remove the stale modules/dynalite entry and the manually triggered combine-prs workflow.
• Replace the manual combination instructions in the contributor documentation with guidance for reviewing the native grouped PRs.

The configuration deliberately uses multiple non-overlapping Gradle entries in the same multi-ecosystem group. Dependabot applies ignore rules to an entire update entry, so a single /modules/* entry would incorrectly broaden module-specific compatibility exclusions.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores

  • Automated dependency updates are now grouped weekly across project modules, examples, tests, and GitHub Actions.
  • Updates use a seven-day cooldown before pull requests are created.
  • Security updates continue to be handled separately.
  • Removed the manually triggered workflow for combining pull requests.

• Documentation

  • Updated contribution guidance with a review checklist for grouped dependency updates.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Dependabot now uses weekly grouped updates with seven-day cooldowns and consolidated Gradle configuration. GitHub Actions coverage is broader. The manual combine-prs workflow was removed. Contributor guidance now documents grouped dependency review.

Changes

Dependency automation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Unified dependency update policy .github/dependabot.yml, .github/workflows/combine-prs.yml	Dependabot groups Gradle and GitHub Actions updates, preserves applicable ignore rules, broadens GitHub Actions coverage, and removes the manual combine-prs workflow.
Grouped dependency review process docs/contributing.md	The documentation replaces manual pull request combination instructions with a review checklist for grouped Gradle and GitHub Actions updates.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 82987

This change moves dependency updates to weekly native Dependabot groups with compatibility exclusions and review guidance retained. No concrete merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: eddumelendez

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title is concise and accurately summarizes the main change: replacing manual Dependabot PR combination with native grouping.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the context, configuration changes, compatibility constraints, removed workflow, documentation updates, and separation of update groups. It provides the information required b…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In @.github/dependabot.yml:
- Around line 101-107: Update the github-actions Dependabot configuration to
include the /.github/actions/** directory alongside the existing root directory,
preserving the dependencies multi-ecosystem-group assignment and current
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