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Maintenance: retire Boring Cyborg greetings in favour of oss-automation #5533
Description
Summary
The organization's oss-automation now posts the first-issue welcome and first-merged-PR congratulation and is live in production. Boring Cyborg's configuration in this repository must stop posting the same greetings to avoid duplicate comments, and the app will subsequently be retired from this repository entirely through configuration file deletion and uninstall.
Tracked in detail in aws-powertools/powertools-lambda-oss-automation#203.
Why is this needed?
Both automations posting the same greetings causes duplicate comments. Removing the overlapping Boring Cyborg configuration now, then retiring the app after observing live traffic, gives contributors a single greeting from the organization's maintained automation.
Which area does this relate to?
Automation
Solution
- Remove
firstPRMergeCommentandfirstIssueWelcomeCommentfrom.github/boring-cyborg.yml(PR chore(ci): remove greetings now handled by oss-automation #5532). - After observing live traffic, delete
.github/boring-cyborg.ymland.github/semantic.yml, remove the PR template's deep-link tosemantic.yml, and uninstall the Boring Cyborg app.
Acknowledgment
- This request meets Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript) Tenets
- Should this be considered in other Powertools for AWS Lambda languages? i.e. Python, Java, and .NET
Future readers
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Activity
dreamorosi commentedon Aug 5, 2026
Reopening: config-file deletion (#5535) and the app uninstall are still pending.
docs: drop references to removed semantic.yml
powertools-for-aws-oss-automation commentedon Aug 5, 2026
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