rustbot says to "Please let @rust-lang/release know" but doesn't say how

[ijackson]

I found a regression from stable to nightly. I filed it. I tried to set the regresson-from-stable-to-nightly tag, but the bot wouldn't let me. I hoped someone else would do so.

Instead, time passed. Now it is a regression from stable to beta. @rustbot still says:

Please let @rust-lang/release know if you're having trouble with this bot.

How should I let @rust-lang/release know? I ended up reading the triagebot wiki and found the ping command, but rustbot won't let me do that either.

IMO when it says "please let @rust-lang/release know" it ought to say how to contact that team.

FTR, the issue in rustc is https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/96956

[apiraino]

fair point.

I think the suggestion is meant to have the user type what is suggested (example @rustbot ping release). However, by reading the triagebot wiki, I think this behaviour needs to be enabled by editing the triagebot.toml and add something such as:

[ping.release]
message = "Hi release team, pls help..."

Not sure 100%, though, my understanding might be off.

Having said that, usually these automated comments are picked and handled up by someone with enough permissions.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

We should probably replace the text with either an issue on this repo or a ping in #t-infra on Zulip.

[apiraino]

or maybe both! (note: Zulip ping requires an account, which not everyone might have)

[Mark-Simulacrum]

Closing as fixed - we now point to this repo and #t-infra on Zulip.