ci : add github action/stale to automatically flag and close inactive issues#23641
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action/stale to automatically flag and close inactive issues#23641rohanKanojia wants to merge 1 commit intoeclipse-che:mainfrom
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… issues Add GitHub action to automatically add comments on inactive issues and close them after a week of activity. Signed-off-by: Rohan Kumar <rohaan@redhat.com>
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Any particular preference for this timing?
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No, it was just an arbitrary value. We can change it to any value as per our needs.
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for what it worth, looks like https://github.com/che-incubator/chestnut-lite flow is working again, so not sure we need to merge the PR |
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What does this PR do?
This PR is part of DevTools Week.
.github/workflows/stale.ymlactions/stale@v10It aims to replace the outdated repository https://github.com/che-incubator/chestnut-lite which is not working since January (see Chestnut actions page). Here a few benefits of using GitHub Actions instead of our own solution:
Behavior
lifecycle/stalelifecycle/frozenare exemptScreenshot/screencast of this PR
This workflow is supposed to run as a GitHub action every night and post comments on issues that are inactive since some time:
If even after marking issue/PR stale there is no activity. Issue is closed:
What issues does this PR fix or reference?
This issue is part of #23627
How to test this PR?
I've tested it on a personal repo.
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As the author of this Pull Request I made sure that:
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