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🤖 A Probot app that adds reviewers to pull requests when pull requests are opened.
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Feature Request: Vacation/Away Mode #108

Closed ibrand closed 4 years ago

ibrand commented 4 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. During the initial exploration of applying this bot to the project I work on, someone expressed concern of what would happen when they're on vacation, sick, or otherwise unable to review a PR. This is an important question for all projects, but especially open-source projects where devs might be taking breaks frequently and sporadically.

I'd like there to be a "Vacation Mode" where no PRs are assigned to you even if you're still on the PR reviewers list.

Describe the solution you'd like I discussed this idea initially with @kentaro-m in a Spectrum post and I like the solution of leveraging the github API around the "busy" checkbox in the user's profile:

If I were you, I would implement it using the User Status API. If you use the indicatesLimitedAvailability fields, you can get the status of whether a user is busy. https://developer.github.com/v4/object/userstatus/ image

Describe alternatives you've considered In my initial post in that Spectrum thread I proposed these 2 solutions, but wasn't really happy with either from a usability standpoint:

  1. Making people edit the config to remove themselves before they leave on vacation. This is a little rough because then you need to remember to edit the config everytime you go away.
  2. If someone hasn't reviewed a PR within a certain number of days, note them as away and re-assign randomly. I like this idea, but I'm not sure how tricky it would be given the way the bot works
stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

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