• Mindy (0xEAB) (30/30) Jun 12 dlang-bot[0] has been doing as a good service for years. It was
• Indraj Gandham (1/1) Jun 12 I think it's a good idea.
• Kapendev (1/1) Jun 13 I think it's a good idea.
• Mindy (0xEAB) (5/8) Jun 16 It’s always a disappointment when the GH notification indicator
• Adam Wilson (5/9) Jun 16 I approve of this. It no longer provides useful value. But it
• Dennis (6/7) Jun 19 I wanted to do this for some time now, but I have no clue where

Mindy (0xEAB) <desisma heidel.beer> writes:

dlang-bot[0] has been doing as a good service for years. It was 
used to match Bugzilla issues with GitHub pull requests, suggest 
bug fixes to be sent towards the stable branch, automatically 
assign labels and merge pull requests.

Somewhat unfortunately, the bot is practically unmaintained. To 
this day, it still keeps warning PR submitters about missing 
references to the long gone Bugzilla. This has confused newcomers 
in the past. The corresponding issue report has been sitting 
there for 1.5 years by now[1].

Sure, it does things like the “master/stable warning”, but as far 
as I recall from a previous announcement the new release process 
might make that obsolete, too.

It also keeps recreating legacy label names that have fallen out 
of use since a quite a while. The labels got renamed but 
dlang-bot has no clue about that. People get also confused and 
use *both* labels. Once already, I have gone through the issue 
list of Phobos to clean up the mess of `Severity:Bug Fix` (actual 
label) vs `Bug Fix` (dlang-bot) as well as `Severity:Enhancement` 
vs `Enhancement`. That’s also why the description of those legacy 
labels has been edited by me to say, “Use *name of other label* 
instead.”
Obviously, I would have preferred to just delete the duplicate 
labels; but it’s pointless since dlang-bot will eventually 
recreate them.

The auto-merge feature has fallen out of use AFAICT because it 
got quite unreliable anyway.

So… How about we shut down dlang-bot for good?


[0] <https://github.com/dlang/dlang-bot>
[1] <https://github.com/dlang/dlang-bot/issues/306>
[2] <https://github.com/dlang/phobos/labels>

Indraj Gandham <newsgroups indraj.net> writes:

I think it's a good idea.

Kapendev <alexandroskapretsos gmail.com> writes:

I think it's a good idea.

Mindy (0xEAB) <desisma heidel.beer> writes:

On Friday, 12 June 2026 at 22:19:24 UTC, Mindy (0xEAB) wrote:
 Somewhat unfortunately, the bot is practically unmaintained. To 
 this day, it still keeps warning PR submitters about missing 
 references to the long gone Bugzilla.

It’s always a disappointment when the GH notification indicator 
lights up, but instead of an insightful review by our awesome 
community members it’s just the ol’ bot reminding me about 
Bugzilla…

Adam Wilson <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 12 June 2026 at 22:19:24 UTC, Mindy (0xEAB) wrote:
 So… How about we shut down dlang-bot for good?


 [0] <https://github.com/dlang/dlang-bot>
 [1] <https://github.com/dlang/dlang-bot/issues/306>
 [2] <https://github.com/dlang/phobos/labels>

I approve of this. It no longer provides useful value. But it 
does spam email inboxes teh world over.

I suppose it could be fixed but even then the value is marginal 
since we have dedicated PR managers now.

Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 12 June 2026 at 22:19:24 UTC, Mindy (0xEAB) wrote:
 So… How about we shut down dlang-bot for good?

I wanted to do this for some time now, but I have no clue where 
it's deployed. I emailed Vladimir if he has access or knows who 
has, but in the mean time I just removed dlang-bot from the dlang 
organization and blocked the GH account. It's probably still 
trying to post its obsolete messages, but failing to do so.