[python-committers] 4 weeks with the new workflow: what needs changing?

[Martin Panter]

> On Mar 10, 2017, at 5:13 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> Is the mention bot helpful? (Our config is at
> https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/.mention-bot and the docs are
> at https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot)

> On Mar 10, 2017, at 8:38 PM, Martin Panter <vadmium+py at gmail.com> wrote:
> I dislike it. At the moment I have the Git Hub repository blocked, but
> this means I can’t even subscribe myself to interesting threads any
> more. I think there were way too many useless emails (lacking context,
> uninteresting to me, etc). It is automated spam.
>
> I encourage you to remove it, or at least make it opt-in. Perhaps you
> can encourage contributors to look themselves at the “experts” list,
> history of the relevant code, or whatever, to find potential people to
> invite to a Git Hub discussion.

On 11 March 2017 at 01:39, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
> You know you can tell it not to message you?

I have tried <https://github.com/mention-bot/how-to-unsubscribe>, but
that didn’t seem to have much effect. At least, I was still getting
subscribed to new pull requests after blocking the bot.

I am also aware of
<https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/.mention-bot> but
haven’t added myself there yet.