Merge pull request #2655 from sopel-irc/ci-maint-v-prefix

ci: make `v` prefix optional in maintenance branch names

Author: dgw

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@ on:
   push:
     branches:
       - master
-      - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.x
+      - v?[0-9]+.[0-9]+.x
       - gha-*
   pull_request:
     branches:
       - master
-      - v[0-9]+.[0-9]+.x
+      - v?[0-9]+.[0-9]+.x
 
 jobs:
   tests:

dev-requirements.txt

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ sphinx-rfcsection~=0.1.1
 vcrpy @ git+https://github.com/sopel-irc/vcrpy@uncap-urllib3
 # also have to use a version of urllib3 that doesn't use the `version_string`
 # attr of the response object, because vcrpy won't support it until 7.x
+# reverting to mainline vcrpy is tracked in #2456
 urllib3<2.3
 # type check
 # often breaks CI on master, so pin and update deliberately, on our own terms