Look into bot for stale issues

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Look into bot for stale issues #336

Closed thebestmensch closed 5 years ago

thebestmensch commented 5 years ago

Task description: Look into https://github.com/probot/stale (idea from Oli) to automatically mark project ideas as stale.

Outcome: Find a way to automatically mark project ideas as stale.

olitreadwell commented 5 years ago

I'm a fan of this idea, having originally suggested it.

Especially if it encourages issues creators to engage with the github issue again and filters old issues for incoming and recurring Open Austin participants.

olitreadwell commented 5 years ago

We could experiment with this by implementing an automated bot of this sort within the iced-coffee github repo

thebestmensch commented 5 years ago

I'm on board with that. I'll get it integrated today.

thebestmensch commented 5 years ago

@open-austin/leadership I plan on adding this to the project ideas repo and would like your input. Please see below and comment if you have feedback. Context at the bottom for those that need it.

Does anyone object to this idea entirely?
Does anyone object to 60 days of inactivity for a comment, and 7 more days to close an issue?

Does anyone object to using the default text when commenting:

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had
recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you
for your contributions.

Context: In an effort to clean up our project ideas repo now and keep it cleaned up, I want to add a bot that automatically comments on the issue after inactivity and closes it if no one responds.

mscarey commented 5 years ago

I think a better solution is to add a label to the issue (I'd choose "inactive" rather than the unappetizing "stale"). Most projects take more than 60 days to finish, yet there may be no new posts in the project-ideas thread while the project is ongoing, because work usually moves to the project's own repo or to Slack. So we'd end up with active projects being closed as inactive, and their threads becoming cluttered with automated comments. Also, if a human is closing the issue, they'll usually leave a final comment with some indication of how the project turned out, but an automated closing doesn't provide such useful information.

stale[bot] commented 5 years ago

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you for your contributions.