From aeb0fd7ddf452e48f95fb0ea01b81a9e7dc1b16e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: penny Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 23:33:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] add documentation about the "pinned" label (#6147) Merge pull request 6147 --- docs/_docs/maintaining/special-labels.md | 4 ++++ docs/_docs/maintaining/triaging-an-issue.md | 2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/_docs/maintaining/special-labels.md b/docs/_docs/maintaining/special-labels.md index a8696174..964ff0e2 100644 --- a/docs/_docs/maintaining/special-labels.md +++ b/docs/_docs/maintaining/special-labels.md @@ -18,3 +18,7 @@ These labels are used to indicate that the Git state of a pull request must chan ## `stale` This label is automatically added and removed by @jekyllbot based on activity on an issue or pull request. The rules for this label are laid out in [Triaging an Issue: Staleness and automatic closure](../triaging-an-issue/#staleness-and-automatic-closure). + +## `pinned` + +This label is for @jekyllbot to ignore the age of the issue, which means that the `stale` label won't be automatically added, and the issue won't be closed after a while. This needs to be set manually, and should be set with care. (The `has-pull-request` label does the same thing, but shouldn't be used to _only_ keep an issue open) diff --git a/docs/_docs/maintaining/triaging-an-issue.md b/docs/_docs/maintaining/triaging-an-issue.md index bc87d96e..23660b17 100644 --- a/docs/_docs/maintaining/triaging-an-issue.md +++ b/docs/_docs/maintaining/triaging-an-issue.md @@ -51,4 +51,4 @@ Is what they wanted to get something we want to happen? Sometimes a bug report i ### Staleness and automatic closure -@jekyllbot will automatically mark issues as `stale` if no activity occurs for at least one month. @jekyllbot leaves a comment asking for information about reproducibility in current versions. If no one responds after another month, the issue is automatically closed. +@jekyllbot will automatically mark issues as `stale` if no activity occurs for at least one month. @jekyllbot leaves a comment asking for information about reproducibility in current versions. If no one responds after another month, the issue is automatically closed. This behaviour can be suppressed by setting the [`pinned` label](../maintaining/special-labels.md/#pinned).