[python-committers] 4 weeks with the new workflow: what needs changing?

[Donald Stufft]

> On Mar 10, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 10, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>> Is the mention bot helpful? (Our config is at
>> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/.mention-bot and the docs are
>> at https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot)
> 
> On 11 March 2017 at 00:32, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> I’ve found it helpful thus far. It’s poked me on a  few issues and I jumped
>> in and gave a review on them. There is too much churn in python/cpython for
>> me to get notified of every issue. I suspect as we get more people
>> submitting PRs (and thus, retaining author) it will get more diverse in who
>> it notifies as well.
> 
> I dislike it. At the moment I have the Git Hub repository blocked, but
> this means I can’t even subscribe myself to interesting threads any
> more. I think there were way too many useless emails (lacking context,
> uninteresting to me, etc). It is automated spam.
> 
> I encourage you to remove it, or at least make it opt-in. Perhaps you
> can encourage contributors to look themselves at the “experts” list,
> history of the relevant code, or whatever, to find potential people to
> invite to a Git Hub discussion.


You know you can tell it not to message you?


—
Donald Stufft



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