Bot "thanks" regex is too permissive
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notable
- Dominant language
- Raku
- Stars
- 19
- Forks
- 16
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
People can thank the whateverable bots, but the regex detecting this is so lax that, for instance, notable swallowed a weekly note today with thanks for someone else:
<AlexDaniel> weekly: Thanks to unclechu++ for a reminder, there's now [...]
<notable6> AlexDaniel, You're welcome!
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No source file or test is named. Locate the regex that detects thanks to the whateverable bots, then use the linked IRC log example as a regression case; done means unrelated thanks are not acknowledged while genuine thanks still are.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100