Comment on Someone has started answering to the github stalebot with memes

Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Deebster@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also just the whole concept is wrong and encourages “me too” spam just to keep the thing from timing out and not being fixed.

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  • Aatube@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I actually see a legitimate use case for it and helped add the actions version in a project where I'm a collaborator.

    Quite a bit, certain bugs disappear after an update without us targeting it (partially because the logs get fudged a bit after going through dependencies, so sometimes multiple bugs have the same cause or it's actually a dependency issue that got fixed) and sometimes we forget about old feature requests.

    The stale reminder doubles as a reminder for us to (re)consider working on the issue. When we know something probably isn't gonna get fixed suddenly, we apply a label to the issue. For enhancements that we'll definitely work on soon™, we apply help wanted. We've configured the action to ignore both. We also patrol notifications from stale to see if something shouldn't go stale. This is a medium-sized project so we can handle patrolling and IMO this helps us quite a bit.

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    • Deebster@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fair enough; I didn’t consider artifact likes logs and traces. I suppose a stale marker might prompt the original reporter to retest and supply fresh ones (or confirm it’s fixed in the dependency case).

      In an ideal world I suppose we’d have automated tests for all bug reports but that’s obviously never going to happen!

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