| 22 Mar 2023 |
 Alyssa Ross | I don't want to be training data for OpenAI | 09:36:02 |
| Alyssa Ross | we have other community members that feel similarly strongly | 09:36:09 |
 tea | In reply to @qyliss:fairydust.space
I don't want to be training data for OpenAI they claim they don't do that | 11:05:30 |
| tea | not sure that this is the right place to ask, but why do we mark abandoned PRS/issues as stale in nixpkgs repo, and not close them? | 11:06:23 |
 K900 | Do you mean the "stale" label? | 11:08:11 |
| K900 | They're not closed because "a robot closed a PR I care about" is generally not a nice experience | 11:08:31 |
| K900 | And having the number lower isn't worth alienating potential contributors | 11:08:40 |
 @piegames:matrix.org | Also, "this has not been touched in a while" turns out to be a pretty bad metric for deciding to close something | 11:12:38 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | Feel free to use the stale label as an invitation to triage issues and close those we don't need anymore | 11:13:00 |
| tea | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
Do you mean the "stale" label? yes | 11:14:32 |
 Wanja Hentze | stalebotting is awful, I think we should be doing it even less | 11:17:23 |
| Wanja Hentze | just marking as stale doesn't do too much harm, but is also quite useless. I can tell something is stale just by looking at it | 11:18:49 |
| tea | people were talking about a "pr apocalypse" with like 2000 open prs. we are constantly over 3000-3100 now | 11:19:02 |
| Wanja Hentze | and instead of filtering for the tag you can always filter for "last updated" or something | 11:19:06 |
| K900 | In reply to@noob_tea:matrix.org
people were talking about a "pr apocalypse" with like 2000 open prs. we are constantly over 3000-3100 now So? | 11:19:40 |
| K900 | We can just close all of them and be a t0 | 11:19:49 |
| K900 | * We can just close all of them and be at 0 | 11:19:50 |
| K900 | But the goal isn't to just get to 0 by any means necessary, is it | 11:19:58 |
| Wanja Hentze | PR apocalypse happened at exactly 2012 open PRs like the dead sea scrolls predicted | 11:20:02 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | In reply to @noob_tea:matrix.org
people were talking about a "pr apocalypse" with like 2000 open prs. we are constantly over 3000-3100 now People were also talking about global overpopulation a century ago, when we had only a billion people on earth. | 11:20:15 |
| tea | I would prefer closing stale PRS but i see it isn't a popular opinion so | 11:20:30 |
| K900 | Like, we definitely need more triage bandwidth | 11:20:34 |
| K900 | But auto-closing PRs doesn't get you more triage bandwidth | 11:20:44 |
| K900 | It just makes the number look smalle | 11:20:57 |
| K900 | * It just makes the number look smaller | 11:20:58 |
| K900 | But then again, so does closing literally every PR the second it's opened | 11:21:20 |
| @piegames:matrix.org | In reply to @noob_tea:matrix.org
I would prefer closing stale PRS but i see it isn't a popular opinion so Again, feel free to do so if you think something can/should be closed. But blindly closing everything stale is not an option | 11:21:23 |
| Wanja Hentze | if anything, I feel like stalebotting leads to more stuff being opened | 11:21:44 |
| Wanja Hentze | because somebody will make a new issue and somebody else re-opens the old one or something | 11:22:01 |
| Wanja Hentze | not sure how frequent that is but I've seen it happen | 11:22:20 |
