How to configure the action to not close stale issues/PRs automatically?

[cygnusv]

From the options available, I don't know how to configure the action to not close stale issues/PRs. I just want the action to mark them as Stale but nothing more.

I guess I can set days-before-close: 999999, but is there a better way?

[damccorm]

There's not a better way yet, that seems like a good idea though. Maybe we should change the action so that -1 means never close the issue?

[damccorm]

Added #16 to do just that.

[derTobsch]

It would be nice if there would be labels that would prevent the stale bot to stale/close a issue or maybe if a issue/pr has a milestone.

[damccorm]

@derTobsch You can specify an exempt label -

stale/action.yml

Line 21 in 0879694

exempt-issue-label:

[derTobsch]

@derTobsch You can specify an exempt label -

stale/action.yml

Line 21 in 0879694

exempt-issue-label:

Ok. But I cannot be done with a milestone or? Or is a milestone only a label in the background?

[xchapter7x]

i've settled on using the stale label as the exempt label.
ie.

        stale-issue-label: 'kind/stale'
        stale-pr-label: 'kind/stale'
        exempt-issue-label: 'kind/stale'
        exempt-pr-label: 'kind/stale'

this way, once the action applies the label, those issues/prs are ignored from then on and never auto-closed.

[C0ZEN]

@derTobsch late to the party but milestones exempt exists now

[tac0turtle]

Is there a way to avoid all issues and only mark prs as stale?

[C0ZEN]

@marbar3778 yes, almost all options are split between issues and PRs.

[tac0turtle]

I have days before stale set to -1 and days before stale for PRs set to a number, yet issues are still closed.

[luketomlinson]

@marbar3778 Can you paste your YAML in here so we can try to recreate the issue?

[tac0turtle]

name: "Close stale pull requests"
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"

jobs:
  stale:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@v4
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          stale-pr-message: "This pull request has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had
    recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs. Thank you
    for your contributions."
          days-before-stale: -1
          days-before-pr-stale: 10
          days-before-pr-close: 4
          exempt-pr-labels: "S:wip"

[luketomlinson]

Hi @marbar3778, I tested with your config you provided and the behavior seemed to work as expected. Do you have any more information you can provide? Possibly a link to the run?

[tac0turtle]

here is a run: https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/runs/3156950356?check_suite_focus=true.

It closed three issues the last run.

[luketomlinson]

ok @marbar3778 I see what is happening. You had existing stale issues example in your repo prior to making the change to not mark issues as stale. So any issues not already labeled as stale are all good and will be ignored. You can either manually go remove the stale label from old issues in your case or set days-before-close: -1.

I hope this helps!

[luketomlinson]

days-before-stale controls the day before an issue is labeled with the stale label, while days-before-close controls how many days an issue will remain open once it is already labeled stale

[tac0turtle]

ohhhh, i see, thank you