Use stale bot/action to automate issue and PR lifecycle management?

[embano1]

Looking at the issues, and to some extent PRs, there's a lot of issues without activity/author feedback i.e. stale.
Should we add Github's stale action to automate the process of pinging authors, and eventually closing issues without activity/feedback?

cc/ @clemensv @duglin

[duglin]

I like the idea of "pinging authors", but I'm not a fan of "auto closing" issues/PRs. It makes me feel like the maintainers aren't doing their job... at least in cases where we're not waiting on the originator. And in those cases I think we need to manually see if who is on-the-hook for the next step.

[duglin]

Luckily, our backlog isn't too bad. I think a large number of them are related to the new specs so I'm hoping we can revisit those issues soon since I think (at least) the discovery spec is becoming more real.

[embano1]

Stale bot can be configured to only ping w/out closing if that helps.

[duglin]

yep - I noticed that. I might try to set it up for the pinging stuff....

[embano1]

Done: #1144