[core-workflow] Starting a bot to identify issues with PRs

[Mariatta Wijaya]

Sounds great!
Thanks, Brett.

Mariatta Wijaya

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> I have now done a test deployment of the bot to Heroku and it works! So
> unless I hear otherwise I will ask the infrastructure team for another
> Heroku app, move the code to be under the Python org, and then turn on the
> bot for the cpython repo. Since it's so easy to override I will make it a
> required check after we have lived with the bot for a few days to make sure
> it works as expected.
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 at 14:07 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 at 10:08 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 April 2017 at 09:23, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> > I have created a bot that I hope we can use to host all non-CLA checks
>> for a
>> > PR that isn't covered by CI: https://github.com/brettcannon/bedevere.
>> To
>> > start, the bot would check for a bugs.python.org issue number and set a
>> > failing status if one isn't found, else link the status to the issue
>> itself.
>> >
>> > If the approach I took in the bot seems reasonable to people I will add
>> > support for a "trivial" label which would cause the bot to say the
>> check is
>> > successful due to the fact that the PR is trivial enough to not warrant
>> an
>> > issue to begin with. We can then continue to expand this bot to do other
>> > things like check that there is a NEWS file (unless marked as
>> "trivial").
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>>
>> And as a break from some political dealings I went ahead and implemented
>> the "trivial" label support. So the bot is now coded to follow a pattern
>> that I assume we will continue to use if we use this bot and add more
>> status checks.
>>
>>
>>
>> > I don't want to role the CLA bot into bedevere since I created the bot
>> in
>> > such a way as to be useful to other organizations on GitHub. So the
>> Knights
>> > Who Say Ni will stay a separate repo.
>>
>> Regardless of the practical details, I kind of like the idea of having
>> the Knights as a grumpy bot looking for a shrubbery(/CLA), and Sir
>> Bedevere as a happier, helpful bot that only complains when it gets
>> confused by a lack of information :)
>>
>>
>> :) Yeah, I was very happy when I got the inspiration for the name since
>> it seemed to fit rather well.
>>
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