Testing a New Stalebot in GitHub's Community Discussions #70478
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@queenofcorgis Since you're showing the sample copy, presumably that's meant to invite input, so I have a suggestion:
...The message could just link to the "recent stalebot announcement" (that'd be this discussion, #70478), instead of sending us on a scavenger hunt. |
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Hi How can I talk to the creator/Dev of Zello as I have a proposition for him, if you could get in touch at [redacted] I would be grateful to talk with you, Best regards, Anton. |
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Thanks for being so considerate by only limiting it to the "Question" category and not closing discussions directly. The As you mentioned, many of the questions here are answered by GitHub staff or at least someone from the community. But some also seem to have no answer at all (discussions with label Do you think that is a problem, and will you try to address that? |
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@queenofcorgis sadly, this is in the announcements category, because I'd really like to see the action mark this discussion as stale. I'd like to hear if you in fact ran this action and what the results were. I personally hate the stale bot. (That I send PRs to it is not an endorsement, it's awful software for a lousy purpose.) There appear to be two constructive pieces of feedback here:
There's also a PR relating to this discussion: One problem with bots is that they make a mess of sorting (by last modified) by bubbling up stale items. Sure, it might breathe be life into a thing, but, for a system built around searching, that isn't worth doing. If someone's searching for a thing, they'll find or not find it based on their search and the text of the item. A better approach would be to improve the UX flow so that authors are encouraged to yes/no answers as they arrive. |
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A bit of feedback: I'm here because the stalebot just replied to a question I've had open for some months about the GitHub API. It suggests three courses of action, all of which are frustrating to read:
The only useful action I could take would be something like "Do $X to get a GitHub employee to look at your question", but that's not one of the suggestions. :-) So the bot is just reminding me that there's a gap in GH's API that I can't do anything about, and there's no one to contact, and no one has responded... which doesn't feel great. Anyway, I don't have a specific thing I think you should do differently (with regards to the bot at least) but I did want to share that the net effect was very annoying. |
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@queenofcorgis / @jricciardi: I've refiled a couple as a courtesy to your team (https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/126580, https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/126631, https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/126632). I'd appreciate it if you were to edit the labels for these remaining three from https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/60448 Sincerely, |
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Here's another example: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/47855 It's a question — potentially a bug for the documentation once there's an answer — but none of the options offered is suitable. Also, not particularly useful that one of suggestions is to |
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The announcement reads, "This action will not close the discussions automatically." But I just had a question closed by the bot: "Closed #103026 as outdated." Was that action actually performed by a human, or is the bot now being used to close older issues? |
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How's the Spambot going |
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Retiring this post as it is over 6 months old. If you have any questions, consider starting a new post. |
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TL;DR - What is happening?
We are working to improve the quality of content across the GitHub Community Discussions. For the next 30 days we are going to perform a test using a custom action to label
Question
discussions that have not had any activity for 60 days as stale. The action will apply the labelstale
and comment to inform the original poster of the stale discussion. Sample draft copy is included at the bottom of this announcement.📢 Feedback is requested on this initial test. Please comment on this post and let us know what you think!
What Discussions will be impacted?
Questions
and have not had and activity in the past 60 days as stale.What is a Stalebot?
Here is more info on this from the GitHub Docs: Closing inactive issues.
We're working with GitHub engineers to test this action in discussions!
Why are only limited categories impacted?
What will happen after the trial period?
Example Stalebot Copy:
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