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Manage stale issues and PRs #473

Manage stale issues and PRs

Manage stale issues and PRs #473

name: 'Manage stale issues and PRs'
on:
# Chosen to be just before London wakes up and way past San Francisco's bedtime.
schedule:
- cron: '0 8 * * 1-5' # This is in UTC.
# Do a dry-run (debug-only: true) whenever this workflow itself is changed.
pull_request:
paths:
- .github/workflows/manage-stale-threads.yml
types:
- opened
- synchronize
permissions:
issues: write
pull-requests: write
jobs:
stale:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@v6
with:
ascending: true # Spend API operations budget on older, more-likely-to-get-closed issues first
close-issue-message: '' # Leave no comment when closing
close-pr-message: '' # Leave no comment when closing
days-before-issue-stale: 365
days-before-pr-stale: 14
days-before-close: 7
debug-only: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }} # Dry-run when true.
exempt-all-milestones: true # Milestones can sometimes last a month, so exempt issues attached to a milestone.
exempt-issue-labels: blocked,do-not-close,feature-gate,security
exempt-pr-labels: blocked,do-not-close,feature-gate,security
# No actual changes get made in debug-only mode, so we can raise the operations ceiling.
operations-per-run: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 1000 || 900}}
stale-issue-label: stale
stale-issue-message: '' # Leave no comment when marking as stale
stale-pr-label: stale
stale-pr-message: '' # Leave no comment when marking as stale