stale-bot config

[jsquyres]

Initial configuration for the Probot stale bot:
https://github.com/probot/stale.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres jsquyres@cisco.com

[jsquyres]

Proposal to discuss at the 2019-03-19 webex: Probot stale bot (https://github.com/probot/stale). The config options I put in here are just the starting point for a discussion.

PROs:

• Auto-close all those issues that, realistically, we won't get to
• Put a label on them to easily find them again someday, if needed

CONs:

• This would take effect of all of our old issues and/or PRs (can't limit it to just "new" issues to try it out)

NOTE: I initially proposed the "lock" bot at the RM meeting on 2019-03-18 (https://probot.github.io/apps/lock/), without realizing that it actually prevents any further discussion on an issue/PR (i.e., it locks them). The lock bot allows selectively applying to issues/PRs after a certain date. This one -- the stale bot -- does not: it would apply to all of our open issues/PRs.

If we want to start using the the stale bot, we might want to manually do something about all of our old/stale bugs before enabling it.

[jsquyres]

Put out for comment on the OMPI dev list: https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@lists.open-mpi.org/msg20868.html

[jsquyres]

It looks like we're leaning towards running this bot on our own node.js server (e.g., on aws.open-mpi.org). One of the OMPI organizations may be able to provide a resource to actually get this done within the next month or so.

There's no real rush on this, so let's wait until that resource becomes available.

[gpaulsen]

As discussed in today's web-ex, Brian has created a wiki for Bot tasks for this summer:

• Github wiki page under open mpi for 'CI development tasks'
  • Wishlist wiki: https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/wiki/GitHub-Robot-Tasks
  • Auto adding labels to PRs.
  • Would all run on AWS Jenkins server

[lanl-ompi]

Can one of the admins verify this patch?

[jsquyres]

@bwbarrett Did we decide not to do the stale bot? Or was this just waiting for us to set up our own probot instance?

[lrbison]

🧟 I think this one is OBE by #12329, can we close it?