Teach bots to react more immediately

[chadwhitacre]

From @jan-auer in DM:

I quite dislike the lag that GH actions come with for bots. A few examples:

• Our danger actions come with 20-30s delay of editing PR descriptions.
• The new stale bot doesn't immediately remove the label once there's activity (at least I haven't seen it do that).

Suggested solution is Probot.

[jan-auer]

To add to this: Even if we trigger the stale bot on issue activity, but that would still incur whatever lag the actions come with. it sounds like a small thing, but 10s is enough for people to navigate away and no longer see the interaction.

In the past, I have made good experience with Probot. Configuration would still be stored per-repo in .github or here in getsentry/.github. We used to run our own probot, and it was migrated to GCP in 2019 IIRC. I'm not sure if it's still operating there.

A stale bot can be implemented via https://github.com/probot/stale.

[chadwhitacre]

Turns out we already have https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-ci-tooling (private) which would be able to do this. It doesn't use probot, but it is a web app designed to handle GitHub webhooks.

[github-actions]

This issue has gone three weeks without activity. In another week, I will close it.

But! If you comment or otherwise update it, I will reset the clock, and if you label it Status: Backlog or Status: In Progress, I will leave it alone ... forever!

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[chadwhitacre]

Calling this done with initial implementations on eng-pipes, more to come over there.