Add Github action to close stale issues #2981
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@AmirhosseinPoolad Lets bring this up in the weekly industry sync meeting to see what people think! |
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The added workflow will close up to 30 old issues every day. Issues that have been inactive for more than a year will be first marked as stale, and if they remain stale after 15 days they will be automatically closed.
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We currently have too many old and abandoned issues, which makes the issues tab not very important for maintainers.
The added workflow will close up to 30 old issues every day, starting from the oldest ones. Issues that have been inactive for more than a year will be first marked as stale, and if they remain stale after 15 days they will be automatically closed. If for any reason you want an issue to be exempt from being close by this workflow, you can mark it as 'no-stale'. The workflow runs every day at 1PM UTC or 9AM Toronto time.
I have commented out some code that does the same thing for PRs but I think it might be too much currently and we only agreed to automatically close old issues, not PRs. I left it in there in case the situation is different in the future.
Since there's a limit of 30 issues per day because of the GitHub API restrictions, this should take many weeks to go through all of the issues and would dampen the change by a good amount, which is a good thing in my opinion.