Hello @Bibo-Joshi,
Thank you for creating this issue. We will investigate it and provide feedback as soon as we have some updates.

We are switching over to issue types as well over in zed.dev's issue tracker - would love to have this configuration option.

This is very much needed, otherwise we have duplicates for labels and types now.

One thing to note is that GitHub's REST API doesn't even support filtering by type, as far as I can tell. So until that lands, getting that feature in the stale action is totally blocked.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/140874#discussioncomment-11582660

Looks like they've added Issue Type to the Reset API.

Any progress with this one? I think there are no blocking things with it.

Stale bot is currently unusable without support for issue types...

@mahabaleshwars I'd still be open to giving this a shot if you could provide me with a few pointers on how to get started :)

@Bibo-Joshi Since it is pretty much the same as the exempt-issue-labels option right now, I guess its something like:

1. check out the repo and read the https://github.com/actions/stale/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
2. extend the options enum like here

   stale/src/enums/option.ts

   Line 15 in f78de97

   ExemptIssueLabels = 'exempt-issue-labels',

3. do something similar to the exeption logik here:

   stale/src/classes/issues-processor.ts

   Lines 351 to 369 in f78de97

   	const exemptLabels: string[] = wordsToList(
   	issue.isPullRequest
   	? this.options.exemptPrLabels
   	: this.options.exemptIssueLabels
   	);
   	const hasExemptLabel = exemptLabels.some((exemptLabel: Readonly<string>) =>
   	isLabeled(issue, exemptLabel)
   	);
   	if (hasExemptLabel) {
   	issueLogger.info(
   	`Skipping this $$type because it contains an exempt label, see ${issueLogger.createOptionLink(
   	issue.isPullRequest ? Option.ExemptPrLabels : Option.ExemptIssueLabels
   	)} for more details`
   	);
   	IssuesProcessor._endIssueProcessing(issue);
   	return; // Don't process exempt issues
   	}

4. extend the docs like here

   stale/action.yml

   Line 48 in f78de97

   exempt-issue-labels:

5. search the whole repo for exempt-issue-labels and ExemptIssueLabels to find all occurence where you have to
6. add a test like here

   stale/__tests__/main.spec.ts

   Lines 1021 to 1051 in f78de97

   	test('exempt issue labels will not be marked stale', async () => {
   	expect.assertions(3);
   	const opts = {...DefaultProcessorOptions};
   	opts.exemptIssueLabels = 'Exempt';
   	const TestIssueList: Issue[] = [
   	generateIssue(
   	opts,
   	1,
   	'My first issue',
   	'2020-01-01T17:00:00Z',
   	'2020-01-01T17:00:00Z',
   	false,
   	false,
   	['Exempt']
   	)
   	];
   	const processor = new IssuesProcessorMock(
   	opts,
   	alwaysFalseStateMock,
   	async p => (p === 1 ? TestIssueList : []),
   	async () => [],
   	async () => new Date().toDateString()
   	);
   	// process our fake issue list
   	await processor.processIssues(1);
   	expect(processor.staleIssues.length).toStrictEqual(0);
   	expect(processor.closedIssues.length).toStrictEqual(0);
   	expect(processor.removedLabelIssues.length).toStrictEqual(0);
   	});