[ QUESTION ] What's the purpose of ignoreComments

[Xelbayria]

the keyword ignoreComments set to true. Is it to ignore the issue body, just focus on the title?

if it's set to false, then it will read the issue body. The Auto-label doesn't have the ability to read the comments posted by other people including myself?

[Renato66]

in your issue body you can have something like this:

<!-- 
  Use this keywords to fill up the issue 
  Critical level: low, high
  "The button on login page is broken and aftects high number of users"
-->

this way you can place the labels you expect on the issue template, but when read by the action the text wouldn't be set as label and you don't need to delete the comments when submitting the issue

and if you want the opposite, ignoreComments: false

<!-- 
  Labels to apply: triage, bug, question
-->

that way every label in the comment, will be applied

[Xelbayria]

I've ran an experiment. I created a new issue. The Action read the issue body and added the labels. All good but I commented on the issue with a simple words like "This isnt my issue. The issue is on the other code's issue"

so the action should have caught the keywords from the comments and add a label, "not related". which it never did. I think it only focused on the issue body, not comments.

[Renato66]

it read comments inside issue body, not comments when you comment the issue like we are doing now

[Xelbayria]

That's what I thought at first. Unfortunately, I would like the auto-label to read the comments, so I don't have to manually add the label to the issue when it's not really related to the code but is related to other code. it happened a few times a month.

One issue with auto-label I noticed is not working very well.

under labelsSynonyms, it would look like this:

labelsSynonyms: {
	"1.20-loader": ['1.20 - loader`, `- [X] 1.20 - loader`]
}

It cannot match the keyword in the issue body but it only matched the label "1.20-loader". I tried to use labelsSynonyms: false and to exclude the "1.20-loader" and only focus on the keywords listed in the array.

There was no match at all and no label have been added. I've ran a few experiments to understand what worked and what don't work.

If i changed the keyword in the issue body: 1.20 - loader to 1.20-loader, it got matched and added the label. I was confused because of labelsSynonyms was set to be false

[Xelbayria]

Just a remind that the question above is not answered.
for some reason, auto-label still added a label "details"

it's in label_issue.json5 which i don't want it to add details

looking like this:

{
	labelsNotAllowed: [
	    'duplicate',
	    'help wanted',
	    'invalid',
	    'details'
	]
}