stale MR triage

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, 18 Sep 2020, 2:58 am Harald Sitter, <sitter at kde.org> wrote:

> Griaß eich!
>

Hi Harald,


> In the KF6 BOF we were chatting about merge requests not being nearly
> as actively watched because people didn't necessarily subscribe to all
> projects. While that is a solvable problem by asking people to kindly
> subscribe, it got us thinking that we should have a way to deal with
> stale MRs in general. For all projects.
>

Please note that from my reading of the code this would also trigger for
people's personal projects as well?

I assume the token it currently uses is your personal one?


> So.... here's the proposal:
>
> We'll setup a new triage project (prototype at [1]; going to move)
> that project runs a pipeline once a week that runs the existing
> gitlab-triage tool [1] to collect all MRs that haven't received an
> update for 2 weeks. The MRs are then dumped into an issue on the
> triage project (ex at [2]). Anyone who is willing to help out with cat
> herding can subscribe to that project and gets notified of these
> auto-generated issues. We can then walk through the list of stales to
> work out a solution for getting them moving (assign a helpful
> reviewer, ping, review ourselves).
>
> Any further thoughts?
>
> [1] https://invent.kde.org/sitter/triage/-/pipelines
> [2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-triage
> [3] https://invent.kde.org/sitter/demo/-/issues/2 (feel free to deal
> with items on this list already)
>
> HS
>

Cheers,
Ben

>
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