# see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-issues-and-pull-requests/closing-inactive-issues # see https://github.com/actions/stale # Automatically closing issues is far from perfect, but then we only have # limited resources and this approach favors issues that people # actually care about. # # also see: # "Should I Stale or Should I Close? An Analysis of a Bot that Closes # Abandoned Issues and Pull Request". # https://igorwiese.com/images/papers/Paper_BotSE_19.pdf name: 'Close inactive issues' on: schedule: - cron: "30 6 * * 4" workflow_dispatch: jobs: close-issues: name: 'Close inactive issues' runs-on: ubuntu-latest permissions: issues: write pull-requests: write steps: - uses: actions/stale@v6 with: # operations-per-run: 300 days-before-stale: 60 days-before-close: 30 stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 60 days with no activity. Please remove the stale label or add a comment or this issue will be closed in 30 days.' stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 60 days with no activity. Please remove the stale label or add a comment or this PR will be closed in 30 days.' close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please feel free to reopen.' close-pr-message: 'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please feel free to reopen.' repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}