probot/stale

Processing less than 24 issues per day

dwijnand opened this issue · 7 comments

dwijnand commented

The limitPerRun configuration option, which limits the number of actions per hour, has a minimum of 1. This means that when enabling stale bot on a repo with lots of old issues, the minimum is getting pings on 24 issues per day.

Does anyone here have ideas how to reduce that?

I'm interested to know if it's possible to get somewhere between 1-5 issues a day, so that they can be reviewed appropriately.

Thanks!

hiimbex commented

You could fork stale and edit it's use of scheduler to utilize these options.

Or you could build this into core stale and open a PR and as long as the default is still an hour, that should be fine.

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dwijnand commented

From @bkeepers' comment in #167 (review) this is blocked on having support in https://github.com/probot/scheduler for a per-repository scheduler (tracked as probot/scheduler#32).

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A Probot extension to trigger events on an hourly schedule - probot/scheduler
dwijnand commented

From #167, this requires changes in probot's scheduler library.

As an alternative, can we find a configuration option to make probot skip a run? A blunt option would be "run once a day". That would work for our use case, but would a change like that be accepted?

stale commented

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?

dwijnand commented

This is blocked pending an upstream fix of probot/scheduler#32.

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ncw commented

I note that you could do this in a probabilistic way without changing the scheduler by setting limitPerRun = 0.1 and in the code if limitPerRun < 0 compare it against a random number from 0..1 and if it is less than that number do the check, otherwise just return.

stale commented

Is this still relevant? If so, what is blocking it? Is there anything you can do to help move it forward?