[scikit-learn] Github project management tools

[Nelle Varoquaux]

> Another bot-able tool might be pinging inactive PRs to ask if they're being
> worked on, and labelling "Needs contributor" if there's no reply within n
> days...!

If PRs are inactive, it might also be interesting to tag them as
easy_fix when there is little to do.

>
> On 20 September 2016 at 00:05, Joel Nothman <joel.nothman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 17 September 2016 at 01:21, Gael Varoquaux
>> <gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 09:14:12AM +1000, Joel Nothman wrote:
>>> > One downside is that there does not yet seem to be a way to search for
>>> > PRs with a specified level of approval (while searching for "MRG+1"
>>> > sort-of
>>> > works).
>>>
>>> Yes, I do that a lot. So this is not a great improvement for me.
>>
>>
>> A lot of the new features, including this, do not seem to have Github APIs
>> (or at least documentation) yet. When we adopted title hacking, PRs could
>> not receive labels. Would labels be an improvement over title hacking for
>> recording approval status?
>>
>> I think it would be worth trying to have a rough priority ranking for
>> things we'd like to see in 0.19. However the Github Milestones feature is a
>> bit crippled in UI: you can rank issues, but cannot filter by anything but
>> open/closed, so for instance cannot see bugs and non-bugs separately.
>> Perhaps Projects come to supersede that, although I think they work best for
>> small-scale sprints rather than release-level milestones. And you cannot
>> search sorted by milestone priority.
>>
>>
>> Apart from an interface for manual prioritising, I think we would benefit
>> from automatic labelling:
>> * of issues to say when a PR mentioning the issue exists
>> * of PRs to say whether there's been 1 or 2 LGTMs by core devs
>>
>> There are a number of issue labelling bots around --
>> https://github.com/botdylan/botdylan seems to be one of the more
>> configurable -- but hosted solutions don't seem readily available.
>>
>> Does anyone know of strong preferences for tracking + labelling bot
>> solutions? waffle.io seems to go in this direction but is relatively
>> inflexible.
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