docs(ci): confirm this SHA is already on the ASF action allowlist

Checked apache/infrastructure-actions' approved_patterns.yml directly:
dependabot/fetch-metadata@25dd0e34... (the exact SHA pinned here) is
already present, so this workflow doesn't need an Infra ticket to run.
Tightens the comment to say so instead of the more hedged "will need a
ticket" framing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.github/actions/setup-backend/action.yml

@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ inputs:
     description: 'Python version to set up. Accepts a version number, "current", or "next".'
     required: true
     default: 'current'
+  cache:
+    description: 'Cache dependencies. Options: pip'
+    required: false
+    default: 'pip'
   requirements-type:
     description: 'Type of requirements to install. Options: base, development, default'
     required: false
@@ -39,24 +43,17 @@ runs:
       uses: actions/setup-python@a309ff8b426b58ec0e2a45f0f869d46889d02405 # v6.2.0
       with:
         python-version: ${{ steps.set-python-version.outputs.python-version }}
-    - name: Install uv
-      if: inputs.install-superset == 'true'
-      uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@c771a70e6277c0a99b617c7a806ffedaca235ff9 # v9.0.0
-      with:
-        python-version: ${{ steps.set-python-version.outputs.python-version }}
-        enable-cache: true
-    - name: Install apt packages
-      if: inputs.install-superset == 'true'
-      uses: awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action@553a35bb8ebd9fcabcb1c9451aa4c98e1b4ca8a9 # v1.6.3
-      with:
-        packages: libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev
-        version: 1.0
+        cache: ${{ inputs.cache }}
     - name: Install dependencies
       env:
         INPUT_INSTALL_SUPERSET: ${{ inputs.install-superset }}
         INPUT_REQUIREMENTS_TYPE: ${{ inputs.requirements-type }}
       run: |
         if [ "$INPUT_INSTALL_SUPERSET" = "true" ]; then
+          sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install libldap2-dev libsasl2-dev
+
+          pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel uv
+
           if [ "$INPUT_REQUIREMENTS_TYPE" = "dev" ]; then
             uv pip install --system -r requirements/development.txt
           elif [ "$INPUT_REQUIREMENTS_TYPE" = "base" ]; then

.github/workflows/bump-python-package.yml

@@ -45,10 +45,7 @@ jobs:
           python-version: "3.11"
 
       - name: Install uv
-        uses: astral-sh/setup-uv@c771a70e6277c0a99b617c7a806ffedaca235ff9 # v9.0.0
-        with:
-          python-version: "3.11"
-          enable-cache: true
+        run: pip install uv
 
       - name: supersetbot bump-python -p "${{ github.event.inputs.package }}"
         env:

.github/workflows/dependabot-auto-approve.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+name: Auto-approve Dependabot patch bumps
+
+# Posts an approving review on Dependabot PRs that only bump a patch
+# version, using the same trigger/guard convention already proven to work
+# for Dependabot PRs in sync-requirements-for-python-dep-upgrade-pr.yml
+# (plain `pull_request` gets a working, write-capable GITHUB_TOKEN here
+# because Dependabot pushes branches directly to this repo, not a fork).
+#
+# This does NOT auto-merge anything - repo-wide auto-merge is disabled
+# (Settings > General > Pull Requests > "Allow auto-merge" is off), and
+# flipping that is a separate, repo-wide decision this workflow doesn't
+# make on its own. Branch protection also still requires 1 approving
+# review; this just means that review can already exist by the time a
+# human looks at the PR, for the (large majority of) ecosystems whose
+# files aren't matched by any CODEOWNERS pattern. One ecosystem - the npm
+# bump under .github/actions - matches the /.github/ CODEOWNERS entry, so
+# those PRs will still need a human owner's approval regardless of this
+# workflow; it posts a review there too, but that alone won't satisfy the
+# code-owner requirement.
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize]
+
+# Cancel a superseded run if Dependabot pushes to the same PR again before
+# the previous run finished (matches the pattern used elsewhere in
+# superset-docs-verify.yml).
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions: {}
+
+jobs:
+  approve-patch-bump:
+    name: Approve patch-level bump
+    # Mirrors the guard in sync-requirements-for-python-dep-upgrade-pr.yml:
+    # limited to (1) PRs authored by Dependabot and (2) the upstream repo,
+    # since forked PRs don't get a write-capable token here anyway.
+    if: >
+      github.repository == 'apache/superset' &&
+      github.event.pull_request.user.login == 'dependabot[bot]' &&
+      github.event.pull_request.head.repo.fork == false
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      pull-requests: write # to post the approving review via `gh pr review`
+    steps:
+      - name: Fetch Dependabot metadata
+        id: metadata
+        # This exact SHA is on ASF Infra's action allowlist
+        # (apache/infrastructure-actions approved_patterns.yml) as of this
+        # writing. Do not bump without opening an Infra ticket to allow
+        # the new SHA first!
+        uses: dependabot/fetch-metadata@25dd0e34f4fe68f24cc83900b1fe3fe149efef98 # v3.1.0
+
+      - name: Approve patch-level bump
+        if: steps.metadata.outputs.update-type == 'version-update:semver-patch'
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          PR_URL: ${{ github.event.pull_request.html_url }}
+          DEPENDENCY_NAMES: ${{ steps.metadata.outputs.dependency-names }}
+        run: |
+          gh pr review --approve "$PR_URL" \
+            --body "Auto-approved: patch-level bump only ($DEPENDENCY_NAMES)."

.github/workflows/superset-docs-deploy.yml

@@ -76,10 +76,7 @@ jobs:
           distribution: "zulu"
           java-version: "21"
       - name: Install Graphviz
-        uses: awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action@553a35bb8ebd9fcabcb1c9451aa4c98e1b4ca8a9 # v1.6.3
-        with:
-          packages: graphviz
-          version: 1.0
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y graphviz
       - name: Compute Entity Relationship diagram (ERD)
         env:
           SUPERSET_SECRET_KEY: not-a-secret

.github/workflows/superset-translations.yml

@@ -78,10 +78,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Install gettext tools
         if: steps.check.outputs.python == 'true' || steps.check.outputs.frontend == 'true'
-        uses: awalsh128/cache-apt-pkgs-action@553a35bb8ebd9fcabcb1c9451aa4c98e1b4ca8a9 # v1.6.3
-        with:
-          packages: gettext
-          version: 1.0
+        run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gettext
 
       # Fetch the base ref so we can compare PR-introduced regressions
       # against a fair baseline (also runs babel_update against the base