+1 to try the bot out. Regarding auto closing the PR's, worst case a PR can be reopened in the event of a false positive.
Whereas tagging stale PR's and requiring further human intervention isn't accomplishing much in the grand scheme of things. Cheers, Cameron -- On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 09:34, Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> wrote: > I think the automatic closing is an integral part, without it we would > never close those stale PRs that we have lying around from 2015 and 2016. > > I would suggest to set the staleness interval quite high, say 2 months. > Thus initially the bot would mainly close very old PRs and we shouldn’t > even notice it on day-to-day PRs. > > It seems there is a larger consensus for adding the PR bot. By the way, > keep in mind that we can always disable the bot again if we don’t like it. > > > On 14. Jan 2019, at 03:33, Kurt Young <ykt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > +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. > >>> > >> > >
