+1 to the bot, but -1 to the automatically closing PR behavior.

Can we just use the bolt to detect and tag the PR with stale flag and leave
the decision whether to close the PR to the author?

Best,
Kurt


On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 11:49 PM Kostas Kloudas <k.klou...@da-platform.com>
wrote:

> +1 to try the bot.
>
> It may, at first, seem less empathetic than a solution that involves a
> human monitoring the PRs,
> but, in essence, having a PR stale for months (or even years) is at least
> as discouraging for a
> new contributor.
>
> Labels could further reduce the problem of noise, but I think that this
> "noise" is a necessary evil
> during the "transition period" of moving from the current situation to one
> with cleaner PR backlog.
>
> Cheers,
> Kostas
>
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 1:02 PM Dominik Wosiński <wos...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Hey,
> > >
> > I agree with Timo here that we should introduce labels that will improve
> > communication for PRs. IMHO this will show what percentage of PRs is
> really
> > stale and not just abandoned due to the misunderstanding or other
> > communication issues.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Dom.
> >
>

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