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A GitHub App built with Probot that closes abandoned Issues and Pull Requests after a period of inactivity.
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Report `daysUntilClose` (human readable) to the user when threatening to close issues #215

Closed jsoref closed 4 years ago

jsoref commented 5 years ago

This antisocial bot is incredibly unhelpful in its rude behavior.

If a bot is going to threaten to take an action, it should be so kind as to tell everyone when it plans to take that action instead of merely saying "hey, i'm going to do something at some point."

The bot generally speaking doesn't touch issues for months, and yet its default is to kill issues after a week. It's totally reasonable for someone to be away for a week, or if they're European for an entire month.

I'd suggest that it report both a relative date (preferably in human readable terms -- 14 days => 2 weeks) and an absolute date (again, human readable -- i.e. not seconds since the epoch.)

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mdinos commented 5 years ago

Why not just add this to your own configuration?

jsoref commented 5 years ago

Because it's not my app? I'm the victim here and I want you to fix it generically so that each GitHub project I visit which chooses to use your app provides me with a better experience?

Why blame the victim?

mdinos commented 5 years ago

I'm not the owner of this repo.. I'm just suggesting that this could increase the complexity of the code, and add very little value - you can configure your own comments through the very simple configuration file, and can you not trust your developers to count 7 days into the future?

markComment: >
   This will be closed in 7 days due to inactivity.

It doesn't have to be rude, just like you don't have to be rude to me. Please don't get angry and victimise yourself, I'm trying to have a discussion.

As a side, the maintainer of this repo appears to have abandoned it, you're unlikely to get any requests into the code.

stale[bot] commented 5 years ago

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

jsoref commented 5 years ago

That bot is really passive aggressive.

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

jsoref commented 4 years ago

It's still an absolutely unfriendly bot.

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

jsoref commented 4 years ago

It's still an absolutely unfriendly bot.

stale[bot] commented 4 years ago

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?