Unresponsive PRs and issues

[harshildarji]

To @cclauss @AnupKumarPanwar @poyea

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Hey all,
At this moment, we have over 150 PRs. Some of these are requested changes by the reviewers, but there is no response from the PR makers after that. Some PRs are months old which now may cause conflicts with current implementations if merged.
Therefore, I plan to close such PRs which have no response from people who made it or is months old which might break an existing implementation.
But before doing so, I would like to know what other members think about this.
Thank you.

Best regards,
Harshil Darji

[cclauss]

My sense is that we should implement #1134.

It is better if it is automated using GitHub's tool rather than doing it manually.

[QuantumNovice]

One of the reason why #1134 should be accepted.

[harshildarji]

@cclauss I agree. Doing so manually is tedious and it is also not my intention considering the number of open PRs. But we have to do this ASAP so we can focus only on PRs which are important and close the ones which are unnecessary and unresponsive.

[cclauss]

https://github.com/marketplace/stale

[harshildarji]

@AnupKumarPanwar @dynamitechetan @r0hit-gupta I've sent the request to install stale.
@cclauss Thanks for approving #1158.

[r0hit-gupta]

@harshildarji I have approved the request. Please go forward.

[harshildarji]

@r0hit-gupta Hey, Thanks for approving this. It's installed but since I do not have permission to configure it, you'll have to do it as an owner.
Visit configure stale to configure it to work with Python repo.
Thank you.

[cclauss]

I do not have the rights to turn this on but it should be turned on.

[harshildarji]

@cclauss I think so. I also do not have rights for that!

[chttrjeankr]

I think using GitHub actions to check stale issues and PRs can be done now, since GitHub Actions is open for public.
Searched a bit and created this gist which I think will be apt for TheAlgorithms/Python repository, but I am unable to understand how exactly can I implement this. Can I please have some help to implement this into the repository? 🙏

[cclauss]

https://github.com/marketplace/stale is all we need. It is free from GitHub. Someone with Admin privileges just needs to turn in on.