Add stalebot

[lildude]

@pchaigno has been doing a marvellous job of marking old issues and PRs stale but I feel this is a waste of his skills. Lets outsource this to a robot: stalebot.

The app has been added to the repo, so we just need to configure it - this PR.

I've gone with the default daysUntil* values as they seem like a good place to start.

Template removed as it's not relevant.

[Alhadis]

Flagging as stale.

[Alhadis]

Wait, that's a really good idea.

14 hours of code review make John go loopy-loopy. 👍

[pchaigno]

I was planning on writing a Probot for that! I should have known someone already wrote one...

LGTM, even though I would have gone for a shorter time period before marking issues and PRs as stale.

[pchaigno]

Do we have a way to know which issues and pull requests will be affected when the pull request is merged?

[lildude]

Do we have a way to know which issues and pull requests will be affected when the pull request is merged?

Yup. Just add updated:<YYYY-MM-DD and multiple -label:"label name" filters to the issues or PRs pages, where YYYY-MM-DD is the date daysUntilStale before today and -label are the labels you want to exclude.

If we go for 30 days with the current label choice, these issues and these PRs are affected.

[pchaigno]

@lildude I haven't seen any changes in the issues and pull requests mentioned above. Are there still things that need to be configured to enable Probot, or will it only start labeling issues in 30 days?

[lildude]

@lildude I haven't seen any changes in the issues and pull requests mentioned above. Are there still things that need to be configured to enable Probot, or will it only start labeling issues in 30 days?

🤔 I don't think there's anything more to do after merging the PR. I'd expect things to come to life within the next 24 hours.

[pchaigno]

And the storm begins... Maybe we could exclude issues and pull requests that have been assigned to one of us? Many of the now stale-marked issues are actually blocked because one of us (maintainers) needs to do something.

[lildude]

Maybe we could exclude issues and pull requests that have been assigned to one of us?

Doesn't look like it has this functionality yet so the only thing to do would be use a label for the mo. Of course, the nudge should apply to us too - I often forget about my assigned PRs and issues 😀

[pchaigno]

Doesn't look like it has this functionality yet

Looks like we're in luck: probot/stale#172.

[lildude]

Wow!!! What timing. Less than 24 hours after we started using stalebot 😁