Heads-up to @Maryann-Onyinye when it comes to drafting the placeholder plaintext to display by default in the task comment field in Phabricator for open Outreach program tasks (and whether this idea makes sense at all)

Example repeatedly posted last time: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357409#9599197 and the red box at the top of the task description.

Or heads-up to @debt now, as far as I understand? :)

@Aklapper this certainly sounds interesting, but I'm not sure how it would be activated. Automatically if we use a certain tag such as 'outreachy'? I'm concerned that it might show up too often and confuse folks that are just posting their weekly updates and such.

Uh, very good point, thanks! Could also take age of Phab account into account here - only display if less than two weeks old or such.

@Aklapper maybe a tag such as "outreachy info" can be used? I'd imagine that tag would only be used for the start of the program cycle (in one or two phab tasks only) and would point folks to the Zulip chat instance to get more info.

I would not want to introduce more tags, the existing ones are already inconsistently used...

aklapper opened https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/97

Display additional info in comment field for open Outreach tasks

Placeholder text in comment field of open tasks tagged with Outreachy (Round 31):

In T367500#9982256, debt wrote:

I'm concerned that it might show up too often and confuse folks that are just posting their weekly updates and such.

That is still a valid concern as project tasks and proposals have the same project tag. Not sure if it's possible (and how expensive) to show this only for tasks in the column "Project Proposals" (PHID-PCOL-p77lrgr3mturf3zqf64f) on https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/view/8143/

Oh my, it's even cheaper (better) to base this query on column PHID than on project tags

For the records (I'm not going to use this code, not performant enough), this would be querying for the subprojects instead of hardcoding project columns:

// Get the active subprojects of Outreachy and GSoC parent projects
$outreach_parent_projects = array('PHID-PROJ-rmphcfxf3ptf6ycqb4ig',
  'PHID-PROJ-xog5wkpbqzbz7bcuazpg');
$outreach_subprojects = id(new PhabricatorProjectQuery())
  ->setViewer($viewer)
  ->withAncestorProjectPHIDs($outreach_parent_projects)
  ->withStatuses(array(PhabricatorProjectStatus::STATUS_ACTIVE))
  ->execute();
if (!$outreach_subprojects) {
  return '';
}
$outreach_phids = array();
foreach ($outreach_subprojects as $osp) {
  $outreach_phids[$osp->getPHID()] = 'foo';
}

Also note that array_intersect_key() is faster than array_intersect()

aklapper closed https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/97

Display additional info in comment field for open Outreach tasks

aklapper opened https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/98

Show info for new contributors in task comment field

aklapper merged https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/phabricator/phabricator/-/merge_requests/98

Show info for new contributors in task comment field

Please note that the columnPHID is hardcoded (to make the query less expensive); this code will need updating every half a year.