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[Dev] Remove implicit workflow transitions #40296
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Describe the enhancement requested
Currently, some workflow transitions (using labels such as "awaiting review") are implicitly triggered on various events, such as posting a comment on a PR. This is both useless and confusing, because it does not mirror the actual state of a PR (you can post a comment without it being a review, for example).
We should disable those implicit transitions. Later we can implement explicit transitions, using dedicated user actions.
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pitrou commentedon Feb 29, 2024
Thoughts @jorisvandenbossche @felipecrv @kou @js8544 ?
js8544 commentedon Feb 29, 2024
PR labels are indeed very confusing sometimes. But I'm not sure what would explicit transitions look like? Could you give an example?
pitrou commentedon Feb 29, 2024
It looks like this, though it seems this bot is actually slightly broken:
python/cpython#115989 (comment)
kou commentedon Mar 1, 2024
I'm not using these labels. (I just ignore these labels.) So I don't have a strong opinion for this.
I'm using "new comment" email notifications as review/answer triggers.
felipecrv commentedon Mar 2, 2024
I never look at and never use the labels. My workflow is opening the "Participating" and "Mentioned" filters, and scanning from top to bottom for items with recent updates.
github-actions commentedon Nov 18, 2025
This issue has been marked as stale because it has had no activity in the past 365 days. Please remove the stale label or comment below, or this issue will be closed in 14 days. If this improvement is still desired but has no current owner, please add the 'Status: needs champion' label.
thisisnic commentedon Feb 18, 2026
This issue has been closed because there has been no activity for the 14 days since the stale warning. Feel free to reopen if this has been closed in error.