John Vandenberg

It looks like requests now supports `max_retries` everywhere, so this should be fairly simple.

Optional: if a *transient error* occurred, such as 500+, the bear should be disabled with a warning. However this could complexity can be deferred to be added later in https://github.com/coala/coala/issues/3332

@Yash17Agrawal , so what are the options available to us? What `setup()` parameters can be used; what types do they accept? What do you recommend?

I like the idea of having the list extracted and stored at each release, as part of release procedure. To make it even more useful, filter out maintainers who didnt...

Active during the release is a good easy way to predict who a) is interested, and b) has a decent knowedge of recent changes which is what inquiries will usually...

I've sent an invite to @rak-shit .

Issue now assigned.

https://github.com/coala/coala/pull/5804 is example.

Hold up, the "Default" section *is* the configuration settings which are before any section header. Those settings are assumed to be in a "Default" section, even if they were not...

We really need @Udayan12167 to clarify what should be done here.