Setup Github Actions for first time contributors

[Tejas2805]

First-time contributors have a difficult time matching RepoSense's contribution guidelines and it becomes the onus of the senior developers to manually check and guide them. Though this is a good practice, I think we should automate the first level of interaction.

Suggestion: Setup Github Actions to reply to first-time developers whenever they open a new PR, to guide them related to the checks and commit message. Then, the senior developers can come in and guide.

Benefits: The senior developers can focus more on guiding the contributor on their code rather than project management.

[Tejas2805]

@damithc Your opinion on this?

[damithc]

Sure. give it a try.
While we are are it, we can also automate other housekeeping tasks such as auto-closing inactive PRs?

[Tejas2805]

Surely. Will look into it.

[dcshzj]

While we are are it, we can also automate other housekeeping tasks such as auto-closing inactive PRs?

This was done in #1299 and #1456.

Suggestion: Setup Github Actions to reply to first-time developers whenever they open a new PR, to guide them related to the checks and commit message. Then, the senior developers can come in and guide.

Can I suggest instead of replying using GitHub Actions, we can use a pull request template which nudges the contributor to fill in the necessary details. Something similar to the one done in MarkBind should be sufficient for us.