nodejs/bot-love

Discussing practical uses of bots, GitHub Apps, and automation in the Node.js organization. 💚🤖💚

Node.js Foundation Node.js Collab Summit Spring Bot

Initial Links

• Original GitHub Issue: nodejs/admin#128
• Original Collaborative Noteapd: https://hackmd.io/E8GitDPnTi-5hseK0JPHTA?edit

Bots Collab Attendees/Team

Ben (@tiriel) Tierney (@bnb) Shelley (@codebytere) Manil (@chowdhurian) Stephanie (@linse)

Notes From Original Meeting

Background Context

• Badges bot needs to be implemented
• years of bot need buildup
• we need to figure out how we can implement bots for the org
• need to reduce maintainer burden

Identify the processes/areas where bots can improve Node.js

• Automatically comment on Node.js core PRs when CI fails, with CI failure info
• Automatically opening backport PRs for review
• When flaky tests fail, automatically comment that the failing tests are flaky
• Moderation tooling - adding
• respond with relevant intro information to new issues, first issues, first PRs, etc.
• Badges bot to assign badges to users
• Surface old issues or PRs

A lot of what we want to do has already been built with Probot:

• https://probot.github.io/apps/
• https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aprobot-app&type=Repositories

Identify how we can begin implmenting bots

• ???

bot-love's Issues

Bot feature request: Add new contributors to Working Groups

Don't know if this is the right place to ask: I already built a script to find contributors, who aren't part of the respective team yet:

https://github.com/nodejs/nodejs.org/tree/master/scripts/contributor-list

What's missing is automatically inviting those people. At the moment this has to be done manually on a regular basis by one of the GitHub admins of the nodejs.org, which makes the process quite cumbersome.