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.
moves all the information to the Markdown document that we can
dynamically update and tries to make things more concise and scannable.
Co-authored-by: Ryan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com>
Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
As somewhat discussed at: https://git.io/JJkRa, make the bot's message a
bit more instructive, and clearer as for what it will and won't do, so
random contributors will have a better idea what this is about.
Also: Split stale issues' and PRs' messages because each should
suggest different actions to do.
Before this, the message being written is:
```
Thank you for your contributions.
This has been automatically marked as stale because it has had no activity for 180 days.
If this is still important to you, we ask that you leave a comment below. Your comment can be as simple as "still important to me". This lets people see that at least one person still cares about this. Someone will have to do this at most twice a year if there is no other activity.
Here are suggestions that might help resolve this more quickly:
1. Search for maintainers and people that previously touched the
related code and @ mention them in a comment.
2. Ask on the [NixOS Discourse](https://discourse.nixos.org/). 3. Ask on the [#nixos channel](irc://irc.freenode.net/#nixos) on
[irc.freenode.net](https://freenode.net).
```
Co-authored-by: zowoq <59103226+zowoq@users.noreply.github.com>
.github/stale.yml: fix newlines
