search

monperrus / bots.yml

Specification of bots.yml for software bots
4 stars 1 forks source link

Linking contribution-kinds to github API #3

Open bestchai opened 5 years ago

bestchai commented 5 years ago

Proposal: Link the contribution-kinds directive to the available calls in the github API, or perhaps an explicit subset of these calls.

Rationale: Bots are going to be automated agents (by definition), so what they can/cannot do to a repo will be determined by the github API. Instead of curating the specific contribution-kinds in the bots.yml spec, we could just allow this directive to take on any value that's available as a call in the github API (e.g., that causes visible mutation to a project's resources). This will also allow bots.yml evolve naturally with github.

One potential con is that API changes would require potential bots.yml file changes, or require bots to support backward compatibility. On the flip side, significant API changes are rare.

monperrus commented 4 years ago

Good idea. How would you see that in the YAML file?