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Welcoming new contributors #544

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spier opened this issue Jun 4, 2023 · 9 comments
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Welcoming new contributors #544

spier opened this issue Jun 4, 2023 · 9 comments
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spier commented Jun 4, 2023

Check out this lovely welcome message that I received when making a minor documentation fix:
the-turing-way/the-turing-way#3174 (comment)

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It is generated by the welcome bot, and can be configured to our liking.

Do you think this could help new contributors to feel seen and welcome?
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spier commented Jun 4, 2023

@yuhattor what do you think about this from a translations perspective? We could use such welcome messages to point people to the respective documentation files, in case they haven't found those yet.

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spier commented Jun 4, 2023

I looked at this bot in a bit more detail now. The only thing that makes me nervous is that I cannot tell how well maintained it is, given that it didn't have releases for a while.

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spier commented Jun 6, 2023

And another example of the same bot, this time with a nice message that you get when your first PR is merged.

The bot supports these 3 scenarios:

  • new issue
  • new PR
  • first PR merged

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yuhattor commented Jul 3, 2023 •
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Sorry. I was missing this message.

I think this is a great approach! It would be very nice if it could be incorporated.
Another idea would be to write issues itself in a more issue friendly manner. ChatGPT could also be used.

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spier commented Aug 9, 2023

@yuhattor I added the welcome bot now, with a fairly simple configuration. (did not test it yet so I hope it works :))

I did not mention the translations explicitly in the welcome messages of the bot for now. However we can certainly change that if we want to:
https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/.github/config.yml

I figured we first get some practical experience with the bot and then we change it to our linking.

Closing this particular issue but feel free to still comment here.

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yuhattor commented Aug 9, 2023

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Thank you! I think this is a very good approach. Please give me a shout if you need my account for testing.
Thanks for the great addition!

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by the way, confirmed it works:)

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spier commented Aug 23, 2023

Yes. The first couple of PRs already received automated welcome messages. Very cool :)

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It's very cool! I would adopt this in my other repository...

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