Not Hakan, but I was working closely with him at the time. Lyft was on a microservice many-repo setup, and we did pin the version of golangci-lint.

I've found it's actually not so bad to do this kind of work across many repos, as long as you have the tooling to apply the same change to any number of codebases all at once. Our strategy was typically:

- Write an idempotent codemod to do an upgrade. This is easy as long as your configuration is in a declarative language.

- Regularly apply it or update it on all of the applicable repos.

- Merge upgrades incrementally until you've upgraded 100%.