unassign inactive users

[SukhvirKooner]

Description

This PR implements a GitHub Action to automatically unassign inactive issues based on a predefined period of inactivity. This action will help maintain cleaner issue assignments and prevent outdated issues from cluttering the project.

Issue addressed

learningequality/kolibri#12837
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Changelog

• Description: Added a GitHub Action to unassign users from inactive issues after a specified inactivity period.
• Products impact: none
• Addresses: learningequality/kolibri#12837
• Breaking: no
• Impacts a11y: no
• Guidance: This change automates the management of inactive issue assignments. No action is required from consumers as this is an internal GitHub maintenance task.

Steps to test

1. Ensure the GitHub Action is triggered by inactivity on issues.
2. Verify that inactive issues have no assignees after the defined period.
3. Confirm that issues with recent activity are unaffected.
4. This action will run every 10 min , can be changed in .github/workflows/unassign-inactive.yaml

Implementation notes

At a high level, how did you implement this?

The GitHub Action uses the GitHub API to track the last update time of issues and automatically removes assignees if no updates have been made within the defined inactivity threshold.

Does this introduce any tech-debt items?

No immediate tech-debt; this is a maintenance improvement for issue management.

Testing checklist

• Contributor has fully tested the PR manually
• If there are any front-end changes, before/after screenshots are included
• The change is described in the changelog section above

Reviewer guidance

• the Code working properly

After review

• The changelog item has been pasted to the CHANGELOG.md

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