Add stale workflow for 180-day inactive issues and PRs#1594
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[WIP] Add GitHub actions workflow to close stale issues and PRs
Add stale workflow for 180-day inactive issues and PRs
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Mark stale at 150 days. Close out at 180 days?
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Updated in commit ba65aac. The workflow now marks items as stale at 150 days and closes them at 180 days total (30-day grace period). |
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Adds a GitHub Actions workflow to automatically manage stale issues and pull requests, helping keep the repository’s tracker clean and reducing long-lived inactive items.
Changes:
- Introduces
.github/workflows/stale.ymlto mark issues/PRs as stale after 150 days of inactivity. - Automatically closes stale issues/PRs after an additional 30 days (180 days total).
- Exempts items labeled
pinnedorsecurity, and caps processing to 100 operations per run.
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Adds automated stale management using
actions/stale@v9.Configuration
pinnedorsecurityBehavior
Issues and PRs with no activity for 150 days are labeled
stalewith a notification comment. If no activity occurs within 30 additional days (180 days total), they're automatically closed. Any activity removes the stale label and prevents closure.Workflow:
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