Hi tison,

Good catch! I also noticed some issues with a stable label and a no
activity commit message. This is going to add a lot of useless information
to the issue.

I don't recommend leaving a commit message.

> For example, even if we close (and lock?) the issue or pull request after
a
certain interval, the stale bot helps on transforming issues state with a
clear rule (although a human action could be more friendly).

We can use the bot to mark the issue or PR but don't leave a commit
message, and then it's up to the committer/PMC to decide whether to close
it or continue handling it.

Thanks,
Zixuan

Enrico Olivelli <eolive...@gmail.com> 于2022年7月31日周日 01:39写道:

> Il Sab 30 Lug 2022, 17:53 tison <wander4...@gmail.com> ha scritto:
>
> > For example, even if we close (and lock?) the issue or pull request
> after a
> > certain interval, the stale bot helps on transforming issues state with a
> > clear rule (although a human action could be more friendly).
> >
> > Instead, we leave a comment and add a label which information can be
> > filtered as the search query mentioned above. I'm curious if our members
> > treat an issue with/without the stale label differently. If not, I don't
> > see the value we gain from running workflows and potentially spamming
> > comments.
> >
>
> Totally agreed.
> It is very hard to follow the overwhelming flow of github pull requests.
> On one hand this is great because the project is very active.
> On the other hand it is very hard to take time to pay attention to
> everyone.
>
> The stale bot is useful only because it bumps up the pr by sending a
> notification and possibly you find it.
>
>
> I think that we should encourage people to talk about their PRs on the dev@
> list.
> We should add some message on the PR template to advise folks to advertise
> their patches here.
>
> In the stale bot the comment should suggest to the author of the PR to ask
> for review here on dev@.
> It will be less frustrating.
> Like:
> We are sorry if your patch has not make it yet. Please advertise about your
> patch on dev@pulsar.apache.org
>
>
> Enrico
>
>
>
> > Best,
> > tison.
> >
> >
> > tison <wander4...@gmail.com> 于2022年7月30日周六 23:00写道:
> >
> > > Hi Dave,
> > >
> > > > The other aspect is it would be helpful if many Pulsar committers
> would
> > > spend effort every few weeks reviewing issues and PRs to engage the
> > > community.
> > >
> > > Agree. I'll try to help with reviewing issues and PRs as I handled
> > > backlogs for the Apache Curator project.
> > >
> > > The topic here is whether "the stale bot" helps or it creates
> > frustration,
> > > spamming comments, and consumes resources unnecessarily. We should
> always
> > > handle backlogs in some way, but may not with a stale bot.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > tison.
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave Fisher <wave4d...@comcast.net> 于2022年7月30日周六 22:50写道:
> > >
> > >> Perhaps 30 days is too quick? 90 days might be better.
> > >>
> > >> Also in cases like this one it’s likely that a PR would get more
> > >> discussion.
> > >>
> > >> The other aspect is it would be helpful if many Pulsar committers
> would
> > >> spend effort every few weeks reviewing issues and PRs to engage the
> > >> community.
> > >>
> > >> All the best,
> > >> Dave
> > >>
> > >> Sent from my iPhone
> > >>
> > >> > On Jul 30, 2022, at 9:59 AM, tison <wander4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> > Here is a fresh bad case of stale impressions:
> > >> >
> https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/15981#issuecomment-1200152441
> > >> >
> > >> > Best,
> > >> > tison.
> > >> >
> > >> >
> > >> > tison <wander4...@gmail.com> 于2022年7月30日周六 13:20写道:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi Penghui,
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Thanks for your feedback! Comments inline:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> If we removed the stale label, how can we know which issues/PRs
> are
> > >> >> active?
> > >> >>
> > >> >> GitHub Search supports filter by updated time:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> *
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
> https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+updated%3A%3E2022-07-01
> > >> >> updated in this month
> > >> >> *
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
> https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+created%3A%3E2022-07-01
> > >> >> recently created
> > >> >>
> > >> >> You can see more information at:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> * Understanding the search syntax
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
> https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/getting-started-with-searching-on-github/understanding-the-search-syntax
> > >> >> * Searching issues and pull requests
> > >> >>
> > >>
> >
> https://docs.github.com/en/search-github/searching-on-github/searching-issues-and-pull-requests
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> IMO, it is just a tool that can help us to get a list of all
> active
> > >> PRs
> > >> >> and issues.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Yes. We can achieve this goal as mentioned above in this mail,
> while
> > a
> > >> box
> > >> >> is unfriendly for interaction and wastes CI resources.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Besides, we have even two labels (Stale, lifecycle/stale). Project
> > >> entropy
> > >> >> increases if we treat broken windows as not a big deal.
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Best,
> > >> >> tison.
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> >> PengHui Li <codelipeng...@gmail.com> 于2022年7月30日周六 09:38写道:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> Hi tison,
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Thanks for bringing up this discussion.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> The stale label can help contributors to filter out inactive PRs
> and
> > >> >>> issues(no active comments for more than a month)
> > >> >>> So that the contributors can focus on the active issues and PRs.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> I think we should start to consider closing the issues and PRs
> with
> > >> the
> > >> >>> stale label manually.
> > >> >>> If we removed the stale label, how can we know which issues/PRs
> are
> > >> >>> active?
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>> From my experience, any process won't work. The only way is to
> > >> inspire
> > >> >>> more reviewers act on PRs
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Totally agree, the purpose of the stale label is to help
> > contributors
> > >> >>> participate in the review work of active PRs.
> > >> >>> IMO, it is just a tool that can help us to get a list of all
> active
> > >> PRs
> > >> >>> and issues.
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>> Best,
> > >> >>> Penghui
> > >> >>>> On Jul 29, 2022, 23:09 +0800, tison <wander4...@gmail.com>,
> wrote:
> > >> >>>>> Hi,
> > >> >>>>>
> > >> >>>>> Previous discussion:
> > >> >>>>>
> > >> >>>>> * [DISCUSS] How to handle stale PRs [1]
> > >> >>>>> * [DISCUSS] Add icebox label for issues and PRs that have been
> > >> inactive
> > >> >>> for
> > >> >>>> more than 4 weeks [2]
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> I notice that over 80% (1527/1891 ATM) issues are marked as
> stable
> > >> but
> > >> >>>> nothing happens later. In an offline discussion with
> > @codelipenghui I
> > >> >>>> learned that we ever wanted to focus on non-stable issues to
> handle
> > >> more
> > >> >>>> inputs but it seems now we don't achieve this goal.
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> Refrain my comment in [1] that:
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>>> From my experience, any process won't work. The only way is to
> > >> inspire
> > >> >>>> more
> > >> >>>> reviewers act on PRs.
> > >> >>>>> Instead of talking about how to do it, reviewing one PR now can
> > help
> > >> >>> the
> > >> >>>> case.
> > >> >>>>> Also, it's reasonable to close inactive PR if there is a
> > successor.
> > >> >>> But do
> > >> >>>> not let a bot do it, which will create many corner (bad) cases.
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> I observe that those stale comments like a spammer in some
> > >> thread[3][4]
> > >> >>> and
> > >> >>>> IIRC some audiences reacted with negative emoji to those
> comments.
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> Thus, I'd like to know whether you gain some value from the stale
> > >> bot.
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> To me, it seems a potential spammer, frustration maker, and
> > resource
> > >> >>>> consumer (we run a workflow to label them, and even tried to
> > optimize
> > >> >>> its
> > >> >>>> resource occupation[5]).
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> Best,
> > >> >>>> tison.
> > >> >>>>
> > >> >>>> [1]
> > https://lists.apache.org/thread/xxmxwnhnlcptv8wr73200qvprnvrfjt1
> > >> >>>> [2]
> > https://lists.apache.org/thread/0lm9tyjqtgtvwkfowkfhbxy24nh8tyxh
> > >> >>>> [3] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/15100
> > >> >>>> [4] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/issues/13864
> > >> >>>> [5] https://github.com/apache/pulsar/pull/14466
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
>

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