Add stale bot to automatically close inactive issues and PRs#1164
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Add stale bot to automatically close inactive issues and PRs#1164
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While I generally agree that this can help with issue hygiene, it's also a bit offensive to the original reporter when the maintainer(s) didn't have time to catch up and an issue just gets closed by a bot. A probably more sensitive way to handle it is that the bot only handles issues that are waiting for input from non-maintainers. WDYT @Kidswiss @lieneluksika @bastjan ? |
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Mark issues and PRs as stale after 90 days of inactivity, close after 30 more days without response. Enhancement requests and issues labeled lifecycle/frozen are exempt. This prevents the backlog from accumulating stale items that require periodic manual triage. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Aarno Aukia <aarno.aukia@vshn.ch>
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actions/staleworkflow to automatically manage inactive issues and PRs:lifecycle/stalewith a friendly commentenhancementorlifecycle/frozenWhy
During this triage session we manually closed ~10 stale issues/PRs that had been inactive for 1-2+ years. Automating this prevents the backlog from growing unbounded and keeps the issue tracker focused on active work.
Maintainers can always:
lifecycle/frozento keep important long-term issues openTest plan
enhancementissues are not marked stalelifecycle/frozenlabel exemption works🤖 Generated with Claude Code
Relates-to: #905