Add scheduled good-first-issue candidate digest workflow - #17902
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What this does
Adds a scheduled GitHub Action (
gfi-candidate-digest.yml) that scans openissues weekly for heuristic "good first issue" signals and posts a ranked
digest as a new issue for maintainer review. It does not apply the
good first issuelabel itself — candidates are suggestions only, and amaintainer decides what to label.
This addresses Section 4.3 of the onboarding/issue-tracking proposal
(follow-up to Discussion #17639 and the June kickoff call), as a concrete,
non-AI, GH Action-based candidate alongside #17901.
How it works
Runs weekly (
cron) or on-demand (workflow_dispatch). For each open issue it checks:good first issuelabeltriagelabel (excludes the bot's own prior digests)Remaining issues are scored — file/symbol references and repro/expected-behavior
sections in the body nudge score down (better candidate), since issues don't
have a diff to measure scope from directly. The top 10 are posted as a single
digest issue labeled
triage.Known limitation
Issues have no diff, so "small change surface" is approximated by counting
file/symbol references mentioned in the body — this is a weak proxy, not a
real size estimate, and is flagged here intentionally rather than overstated.
Testing
Tested on my fork (
ankitsharma101/theia) via manualworkflow_dispatchruns:good first issueissues are excludedissues were being treated as candidates in later runs (fixed via bot-author
and
triage-label exclusion)Still draft pending feedback on thresholds (
MAX_AGE_MONTHS,MAX_COMMENTS,MIN_BODY_LENGTH) tuned against Theia's actual issue volume (~1,440 open),since I only validated against synthetic test issues on my fork so far.