René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Add the mention bot?","articleBody":"One feedback people have been having so far is that the firehouse of notifications from Github on python/cpython is too much and they're having to unwatch the repository. That is a reasonable thing to do (I, for instance, do not watch the repository). However that can make it harder to get people to review PRs since they'll no longer be notified of news ones and they'll have to go out of their way to look for them.\r\n\r\nOne solution to this problem is https://github.com/facebook/mention-bot. It will attempt to intelligently notify people on new PRs (by CCing them) who it thinks is a good fit to review the code (effectively, which people were working around this area most recently). This bot also has a feature that might help with the module owner issue mentioned in #29, which it allows people to configure themselves to *always* get notified for certain PRs that touch certain files. For people who never want to be automatically notified, they can add themselves to the configuration blacklist and it will never select them as a potential reviewer. It has a number of other features (skipping if the person is a contributor, delaying the mention for X amount of time to let a PR get a review \"naturally\" before notifying people, etc) that attempt to reduce the amount of notifications it gives as well.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dstufft","@type":"Person","name":"dstufft"},"datePublished":"2017-02-15T20:16:04.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":48},"url":"https://github.com/32/core-workflow/issues/32"}