[Nix-dev] Limiting access to only maintained packages and ensuring core packages are maintained

[Freddy Rietdijk]

We could let the mention-bot ignore certain files

  "fileBlacklist": ["*.md"], // mention-bot will ignore any files that
match these file globs

On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Shea Levy <shea at shealevy.com> wrote:

> No, not something automated like that. Though mention-bot seems to work
> decently well, it doesn't know for example that changes to
> all-packages.nix are much less useful than changes to a default.nix file
> in a package directory. A human can know that, and additionally look at
> the log messages to see the nature of the changes to see if they're
> likely to be relevant.
>
> Bardur Arantsson <spam at scientician.net> writes:
>
> > On 2016-09-02 23:16, Shea Levy wrote:
> >> Why can't people use the commit logs to see who is knowledgeable?
> >
> > Are you thinking of something like https://github.com/facebook/
> mention-bot ?
> >
> > This fails in the case where someone does a big cross-cutting (i.e. not
> > concerned with particular packages) refactor which happens to touch a
> > lot of code. Suddenly you'd get a huge number of notifications about
> > *every package under the sun*.
> >
> > (Why, yes, I *have* been the 'victim' of this type of thing in a GitHub
> > repo where the project uses mention-bot. Now, some of that may simply be
> > due to the algorithm that mention-bot uses, but it's pretty hard to
> > avoid unless you're *somehow* able to algorithmically distinguish
> > large-scale cross-cutting refactors from actual package maintenance
> > changes.)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >
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