GitHub Actions: Automate In Progress Issue Updates: Hide Old Comments

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Dependency

• GitHub Actions: Improvements to 'Automate In Progress Issue Updates: Add Update Label' #2032

Overview

As developers, we will update the GitHub action job "Add-Update-Label-to-Issues-Weekly" so that duplicate or outdated "update" comments are hidden, in order to improve the readability of the issue history.

Details

If a bot "update" comment is older than commentByDays (currently 7), it is either going to be duplicated with another "update" comment (if it is more recent than an assignee comment) or it is outdated (because a more recent assignee comment exists). In either case the old bot "update" comment should be hidden.

Action Items

• The job "Add-Update-Label-to-Issues-Weekly" is part of the workflow schedule-fri-0700.yml and the script can be found in add-label.js. Understand the code, in particular the functionisTimelineOutdated in which each timeline event (including comments) is examined
• Add code that hides (as "outdated") bot "update" comments older than commentByDays
• Test using your copy of the Project Board, with your PAT, as described in Tip 6 and 7 of Hack for LA's GitHub Actions

Resources/Instructions

schedule-fri-0700.yml
add-label.js
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[Aveline-art]

Moved back into the ice box per this comment

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

This issue should only hide the duplicate bot messages, not all old bot messages.