Welcome! We’re excited for you to use Dosu, here you’ll find useful info on getting started.

<aside> ⭐ For examples of Dosu in action, checkout the ongoing list amazing reactions

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Features

Dosu’s initial feature set was built specifically for OSS maintainers. Our team knows first hand the difficulties of maintaining open source projects, and we wanted to build something to keep GitHub repositories organized and help users stay unblocked.

Auto Reply

Dosu gives a first pass at replying to new issues and discussions
- You can also summon Dosu into an ongoing by mentioning it, “@dosu-bot”
Dosu tries to find any information related to the user’s questions to generate a helpful answer
- “Related information” could include existing issues or discussions, code changes, or docs
If Dosu can't find relevant information, it'll ask for more details.
Dosu will get better over time (more answered questions = better knowledge).
- If you see a response from Dosu that is useful, make sure to give the response a 👍
- Similarly, if Dosu is incorrect or not helpful, give it a 👎 to let it know

Auto Labelling

<aside> 💡 Dosu learns from corrections! Add labels Dosu misses or remove incorrect labels to teach it the nuances of your repository

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Labeling is one of the primary ways repositories stay organized
Dosu is able to intelligently auto-label new issues and PRs
If corrected, Dosu learns which labels apply in which contexts

Smarter Stale Bot

A growing backlog of stale issues (or important issues that haven’t been addressed) are a major pain point for a lot of OSS projects
Dosu provides a “smarter”, configurable stale bot to deal with these longstanding issues