So I can’t tell if this is already happening or not.  Are we using issues or discussions for things that used to be in typing-sig? (I follow the whole repo and there’s a lot of noise.)

On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 13:01 Shannon Zhu via Typing-sig <typing-sig@python.org> wrote:

Thanks so much Sebastian for putting in the work to set this up!

I agree that using the existing python typing issues repository is better than setting up yet another forum to monitor. If we can have a bot that emails anyone subscribed with a weekly summary of features issues, that would be perfect – is that easy to set up?

 

For ongoing discussions on typing-sig, I assume we’ll leave those be for now?

 

I’d also be supportive of closing issues with no activity in 6 months rather than a year, and/or including threads with more than 5 comments. Not sure if that’s too aggressive, but keeping the issues page high signal seems worthwhile to me.

 

From: Sebastian Rittau <srittau@rittau.biz>
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021 at 7:58 AM
To: typing-sig@python.org <typing-sig@python.org>
Subject: [Typing-sig] Re: Where to discuss typing features

Am 04.11.21 um 09:06 schrieb Sebastian Rittau:

Implementation

I propose to do the following to the typing issues:

  1. Add a new label "feature" for feature discussions.
  2. Add issue templates for new features (and a few other issue types) so that the correct label gets applied automatically.
  3. I volunteer to do housekeeping and go through the old issues in the typing repository, closing out outdated ones and applying the proper labels.
  4. As a first step, set up a bot that sends a weekly(?) mail to typing-sig with the titles and links to new feature issues and a list of feature issues that got new comments since the last mail.
  5. See how that works out.

I have now implemented steps 1 through 3. All feature suggestions can be found here: https://github.com/python/typing/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22topic%3A+feature%22

This is a PR for issue templates for the typing repository: https://github.com/python/typing/pull/921 I'm sure that these templates can be improved upon immensely.

Another idea I have: Set up a GitHub Action that closes all feature issues that haven't had new comments for a year or more and have less than 5 comments. If someone still cares about this issue, they can reopen it or leave another comment.

 - Sebastian

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