[core-workflow] Starting a bot to identify issues with PRs

[Brett Cannon]

I have now done a test deployment of the bot to Heroku and it works! So
unless I hear otherwise I will ask the infrastructure team for another
Heroku app, move the code to be under the Python org, and then turn on the
bot for the cpython repo. Since it's so easy to override I will make it a
required check after we have lived with the bot for a few days to make sure
it works as expected.

On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 at 14:07 Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Apr 2017 at 10:08 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1 April 2017 at 09:23, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> > I have created a bot that I hope we can use to host all non-CLA checks
> for a
> > PR that isn't covered by CI: https://github.com/brettcannon/bedevere. To
> > start, the bot would check for a bugs.python.org issue number and set a
> > failing status if one isn't found, else link the status to the issue
> itself.
> >
> > If the approach I took in the bot seems reasonable to people I will add
> > support for a "trivial" label which would cause the bot to say the check
> is
> > successful due to the fact that the PR is trivial enough to not warrant
> an
> > issue to begin with. We can then continue to expand this bot to do other
> > things like check that there is a NEWS file (unless marked as "trivial").
>
> +1 from me.
>
>
> And as a break from some political dealings I went ahead and implemented
> the "trivial" label support. So the bot is now coded to follow a pattern
> that I assume we will continue to use if we use this bot and add more
> status checks.
>
>
>
> > I don't want to role the CLA bot into bedevere since I created the bot in
> > such a way as to be useful to other organizations on GitHub. So the
> Knights
> > Who Say Ni will stay a separate repo.
>
> Regardless of the practical details, I kind of like the idea of having
> the Knights as a grumpy bot looking for a shrubbery(/CLA), and Sir
> Bedevere as a happier, helpful bot that only complains when it gets
> confused by a lack of information :)
>
>
> :) Yeah, I was very happy when I got the inspiration for the name since it
> seemed to fit rather well.
>
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