Hi Roshani, Good suggestion! How will the bot decide what labels to add ?
Anirudh On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:39 PM, Naveen Swamy <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 for the proposal to triage issues, I think committers should also do > this exercise to understand the customer pain. > > I am also inclined to use a bot account like how Tensorflow and other repos > do it, https://github.com/googlebot. > https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/pull/19445#event-1638027271 --> > This is auto-tagged by the bot, it would be cool if we could do that as > well. > > > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:25 PM, sandeep krishnamurthy < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks, > > > > Roshani for starting this thread. > > > > Yes, I think labeling the issues will help a lot in driving the attention > > of contributors to specific areas and make it easy for new contributors > to > > search and pick their contribution. > > > > I agree manually doing it all the time is not scalable and efficient. > Your > > proposal on bot script to auto-label, similar to the working of Jenkins > bot > > to re-test, re-build actions, will be very useful and effective. Hence, I > > am more inclined to your *option 1* to have a bot account to add labels. > > > > Best, > > Sandeep > > > > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 4:16 PM, Roshani Nagmote < > > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Some of us here at Amazon as a part of our day job, are triaging Github > > > issues to find where MXNet users are experiencing difficulty and help > the > > > community focus on those areas. This is done by assigning labels to the > > > Github issues. We do know that only labeling won’t solve the real > problem > > > but we will expand our scope to also attempt to resolve the issues. > > > Categorizing issues could also help contributors and maintainers who > > know a > > > particular area to pick up the issue and help the user. > > > > > > Right now, we just manually go through the issues. If they are > questions, > > > we redirect users to start a discussion on discuss forum, find the > > > appropriate labels and then ask one of the committers to add those > > labels. > > > This process is not very smooth as its completely manual and every time > > we > > > need to ask committers to add labels. > > > > > > We want to be able to automate/simplify this issue labeling process. > > > Right now, as far as I know, there's no way for non-committers to add > > > labels. So, I want to propose two options: > > > > > > - Using a separate account having minimum permissions to run the bot > > script > > > which will do the labeling. For this, we will need an account to be > > created > > > from Apache infrastructure with proper access and they can control the > > > access for the account through > > > https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/userguide/intro.html > > > > > > - Using one of the committers auth token to run the script. > > > > > > Please let me know if you have any other ideas to do this. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Roshani > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Sandeep Krishnamurthy > > >
