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Welcoming new contributors #544
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Check out this lovely welcome message that I received when making a minor documentation fix:
the-turing-way/the-turing-way#3174 (comment)
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 commentedon 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.
spier commentedon 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.
spier commentedon 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:
yuhattor commentedon Jul 3, 2023
@spier
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.
spier commentedon 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.
yuhattor commentedon Aug 9, 2023
@spier
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!
yuhattor commentedon Aug 23, 2023
by the way, confirmed it works:)
spier commentedon Aug 23, 2023
Yes. The first couple of PRs already received automated welcome messages. Very cool :)
yuhattor commentedon Aug 23, 2023
It's very cool! I would adopt this in my other repository...