add support for autolabel stale PR

[xchapter7x]

automatically labels stale PRs

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@jharshman

[jharshman]

Will this just apply the stale label or also close the issue?

[xchapter7x]

Will this just apply the stale label or also close the issue?

@jharshman

For now this is just adding labels. We can, I believe, modify that later to auto-close things.

[jharshman]

For now this is just adding labels. We can, I believe, modify that later to auto-close things.

Okay great - step in the right direction. This will give us an ability to prioritize combing through some of the stale issues and either create action items or close them out.

[wfernandes]

I had a question about the default behavior and found my answer so I thought I'd share it here:

This github action runs midnight every day to mark issues as stale. By default if the issue/PR has no activity for 60 days it will mark it as stale and if it remains stale for another week it then closes the issue/PR automatically. More info: https://github.com/actions/stale

[xchapter7x]

I had a question about the default behavior and found my answer so I thought I'd share it here:

This github action runs midnight every day to mark issues as stale. By default if the issue/PR has no activity for 60 days it will mark it as stale and if it remains stale for another week it then closes the issue/PR automatically. More info: https://github.com/actions/stale

@wfernandes thanks for detailing the behavior. I was mistaken when I said it wouldnt close the issues. Great catch.

I guess the question for @jharshman, is the behavior described by @wfernandes desired?

If not we can modify the config such that issues/prs do not get auto-closed.

[jharshman]

@xchapter7x

If not we can modify the config such that issues/prs do not get auto-closed.

Yes let's do that so they don't auto-close. There are some issues that I know are stale but are still relevant.

[xchapter7x]

@xchapter7x

If not we can modify the config such that issues/prs do not get auto-closed.

Yes let's do that so they don't auto-close. There are some issues that I know are stale but are still relevant.

@jharshman
there are 2 general ways. We can add an exempt label, which would allow us to filter the stale items we do not want auto-closed.
or
we can just make nothing get auto-closed via a really long config ie days-before-close: 999999

thoughts on which workflow you'd prefer?

[xchapter7x]

@jharshman
where i landed for the implementation is i created an exempt label, which matches the stale label.
This way, once the issues/prs are labelled stale by the action, they will from then on be ignored by the action and will not be auto-closed.

moving forward we can simply change or remove the exempt label to support our desired workflow in auto-closing or not.

[jharshman]

@xchapter7x sounds like a plan. Lmk if I need to create a new label.

[xchapter7x]

@xchapter7x sounds like a plan. Lmk if I need to create a new label.

@jharshman
the only label this action uses is kind/stale. as long as that exists we should be fine.