Adding stale bot for github issue management (libopenshot-audio)

[jonoomph]

Experimental support for stale plugin, to help with issue management on GitHub. https://github.com/marketplace/stale

Related PR for libopenshot: OpenShot/libopenshot#460

[jonoomph]

@ferdnyc Would love to hear your comments on default settings. These are mostly the "default" settings the stale bot ships with. I think 60 days seems fair, before tagging an issue as 'stale', and 7 more days to respond also seems reasonable.

I'm not quite sure what happens though, after someone responds. Does the bot remove the 'stale' label automatically?

[ferdnyc]

@ferdnyc Would love to hear your comments on default settings. These are mostly the "default" settings the stale bot ships with. I think 60 days seems fair, before tagging an issue as 'stale', and 7 more days to respond also seems reasonable.

Yeah, that sounds pretty fair. Might want to raise it to 120 or even 180 days on these repos, since issues tend to languish a lot longer despite being perfectly valid. But for OpenShot, 2 months sounds reasonable.

Maybe the grace period could be raised to 2 weeks, since there actually have been plenty of times where someone's gotten back to an issue (in either direction) after 10 or 12 days have passed... but 7 is probably fine, too.

I'm not quite sure what happens though, after someone responds. Does the bot remove the 'stale' label automatically?

According to the marketplace listing, yes. 👍

If the Issue or Pull Request is updated, or anyone comments, then the stale label is removed.

Only change I'd request, for all repos, is to add exemptAssignees: true to the config, so that assigning an issue to someone will protect it from being Stale'd.

Oh, that, and only: issues, if it isn't already set, since we definitely don't want pull requests to get auto-closed after only 2 months. Or probably ever, really. We can manually close those, there's not that many.

[jonoomph]

@ferdnyc Updating auto-stale conditions (90 days warning, 10 days to respond, only issues, ignore assigned issues). I feel good about these changes. I'm gonna merge this soon, and see what happens. 🤞

[ferdnyc]

LGTM. Hell, I'll pull the trigger for you, let's light this candle. 😉

[ferdnyc]

(You'll notice I only did the one repo, because I am a coward. We'll see how this goes...)

[ferdnyc]

Oh, hehe, see? The parameters are already out of sync. I have to update the description of the stale label, to reflect the latest changes. 😄

[jonoomph]

Thanks!