Canned responses to automate common replies

[tiran]

Would it be possible to extend Bedevere's vocabulary and teach him canned responses? This would reduce the burden on code reviewers and give users better and more consistent answers. There are issues that pop up in regular intervals, e.g. missing CLA, rebase required, broken tests, missing blurb. In other cases users have ignored Bedevere's instructions and have used GH's review request feature instead of Bedevere command I have made the requested changes; please review again. It would be helpful to re-trigger Bedevere's response, too.

Example

Command: /bedevere blurb

Bederve replies: A Python core developer has requested a news entry. <instruction how to add a blurb>.

[Mariatta]

It's possible. We need to implement and also document all the commands somewhere.

To avoid spam, perhaps the commands should be restricted to: Python core devs, Python triage, and the OP.

[Mariatta]

Also do we want this all part of bedevere codebase, as a new GitHub Action within the CPython repo? What are your recommendations @brettcannon ?

[brettcannon]

I personally would rather either pick apart Bedevere to become a bunch of individual GitHub Actions for easier maintenance, or move Bedevere over wholesale as a GitHub Action.