action #47441
Updated by jorauch almost 5 years ago
Currently there's the problem with Pull requests sometimes being forgotten and open forever, leading to tickets that are open for too long just because a PR wasn't merged in time.
There's the proposal of using a bot that upon certain syntax either pings the person on irc, or better writes on an irc channel (#testing or #opensuse-factory? or #opensuse-someotherchannel? without being too noisy...
There are many bots that are available for this:
* [devbot](https://github.com/mudler/devbot) which is the one used by the Tools Team.
* [probot/reminders](https://github.com/probot/reminders)
* [brnbp/probot](https://github.com/brnbp/probot)
## Requirements for an acceptable bot:
The bot shall be able to fulfill the Acceptance Criteria post timebox.
These are suggestions, but definitely not limited to those. A quick test should allow us to move forward and pick what's best for the team.
## Suggestions
* Give a quick check to the options given or look for some alternatives
* Test the bot, ideally it will react when a PR has more than X days without progress, and when it is mentioned or when it reads a comment with certain syntax.
## Acceptance Criteria (To remove timebox):
- <del>AC.0: Research is done in the specified time (more or less), and findings are documented.</del> -> DONE: https://progress.opensuse.org/issues/47441#note-12
## Acceptance Criteria: Post timebox
- AC.1: Bot is running and setup is documented in a wiki
- AC.2: Bot only reacts under the following conditions:
- Mention/Review comment (TBD)
- A PR open for more than X days
- a PR has been marked as approved
- AC.3: Bot behaviour as discussed:
- collect Data of PRs older than X days
- create List of stalled Prs which is revisited regularly
- notify creator of PR and maybe last commentator