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authorRyan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com>2022-04-30 08:30:08 -0700
committerRyan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com>2022-04-30 08:30:08 -0700
commit2118173ca4ac0276c261f4c04eb10a2cbafb7ba8 (patch)
tree4c51e460253e97bcd84c5ef777c5889c60c194a4 /.github
parentebd442ebd63f4ba65a397bdbe4ec312e5dc8107d (diff)
.github/stale bot: stop commenting
Niklas Hambüchen noted in

https://github.com/NixOS/rfcs/pull/124#issuecomment-1113647856

that we can add a label description for the stale label that appears
when you hover over the label, or look on

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/labels

I set the description to be

> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/STALE-BOT.md

which is our page explaining the stale bot.

The stale bot comments/emails are a significant burden on our most
prodigious contributors, and the reason for their existence to orient
new contributors.

Since our stale bot's configuration is benign enough to ignore (it
does not close), I believe it is good enough to satisfy the new
contributor orientation with the label description.

Therefore, this commit disables commenting when labeling an issue or
PR stale.
Diffstat (limited to '.github')
-rw-r--r--.github/STALE-BOT.md1
-rw-r--r--.github/stale.yml3
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/.github/STALE-BOT.md b/.github/STALE-BOT.md
index 0c5a21cc35240..dff787300d40b 100644
--- a/.github/STALE-BOT.md
+++ b/.github/STALE-BOT.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Stale bot information
 
 - Thanks for your contribution!
+- Our stale bot will never close an issue or PR.
 - To remove the stale label, just leave a new comment.
 - _How to find the right people to ping?_ &rarr; [`git blame`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-blame) to the rescue! (or GitHub's history and blame buttons.)
 - You can always ask for help on [our Discourse Forum](https://discourse.nixos.org/), [our Matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#nix:nixos.org), or on the [#nixos IRC channel](https://web.libera.chat/#nixos).
diff --git a/.github/stale.yml b/.github/stale.yml
index b5e6ec93baf9f..d6134c7ce1128 100644
--- a/.github/stale.yml
+++ b/.github/stale.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ exemptLabels:
   - "1.severity: security"
   - "2.status: never-stale"
 staleLabel: "2.status: stale"
-markComment: |
-  I marked this as stale due to inactivity. &rarr; [More info](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/.github/STALE-BOT.md)
+markComment: false
 closeComment: false