[FLOSS] Switch from probot/stale to github/stale

[kodebach]

We should switch from the current Probot based "stale issue bot" to the one provided by GitHub.

Not only is the Probot based one, seemingly no longer maintained (see probot/stale#385 and probot/probot.github.io#376), but the GitHub one also has a lot more options. Including one option which allows closing issues as "not planned" instead of "completed".

[kodebach]

@markus2330 The old Probot based bot also seems to be buggy. It closed both #3318 and #1610 even though the last comment wasn't the "I mark this issue stale" from the bot.

[stefnotch]

I can confirm that probot/stale is still installed.
The config file exists at https://github.com/ElektraInitiative/libelektra/blob/master/.github/stale.yml
And since it's an app, it would also have to be uninstalled.

And the improved stale issues action still needs to be installed.

Installing the new stale issues action

After a fair bit of searching, I actually found the right documentation page
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-issues-and-pull-requests/closing-inactive-issues

This can probably be done in a fork, and a pull request can be created with this.

Uninstalling probot/stale

By going to https://github.com/apps/stale and pressing configure.

Then one would select libelektra

And hit the x button

And finally press uninstall

[markus2330]

Thank you for the detailed analysis. Let us first make a config file for the new one, then I'll do the steps to add the new one and remove the old one.

[Janldeboer]

Is creating the config file an appropriate change for a pull request in T1?
It does not completely fit into any of the 3 described problems, but it it is still closely related I suppose.

[markus2330]

I uninstalled probot/stale as described above.

And the improved stale issues action still needs to be installed.

Is there anything else to be done?

[0x6178656c]

And the improved stale issues action still needs to be installed.

Is there anything else to be done?

I don't think so. I think that the only manual step needed was removing the old probot/stale.

The action has been created automatically: https://github.com/ElektraInitiative/libelektra/actions/workflows/stale.yml

[kodebach]

Is there a reason, we didn't end up using the close-issue-reason: not_planned option?

[markus2330]

Is there a reason, we didn't end up using the close-issue-reason: not_planned option?

What do you mean? We switched.

[kodebach]

Yes we switched to the GitHub stalebot action. But I don't see the close-issue-reason: not_planned option in https://github.com/ElektraInitiative/libelektra/blob/master/.github/workflows/stale.yml.

That means the bot still closes issues as "completed" not as "not planned". See for example #2991 (comment), which was closed today.

[0x6178656c]

@kodebach Thanks for pointing this out. I should have read this thread more carefully.

It seems that the option close-issue-reason is set automatically to not_planned in v6. I still added it so be explicit, though.

Edit: For context: I previously chose v5 for the GitHub action and have now changed it to v6 in #4726