manage-stale-issues-and-prs.yml

name: "Manage stale issues and PRs"
on:
  # Chosen to be just before London wakes up and way past San Francisco's bedtime.
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 8 * * 1-5" # This is in UTC.
  # Do a dry-run (debug-only: true) whenever this workflow itself is changed.
  pull_request:
    paths:
      - .github/workflows/manage-stale-issues-and-prs.yml
    types:
      - opened
      - synchronize

permissions:
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  stale:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@v6
        with:
          ascending: true # Spend API operations budget on older, more-likely-to-get-closed issues first
          close-issue-message: "" # Leave no comment when closing
          close-pr-message: "" # Leave no comment when closing
          days-before-issue-stale: 365
          days-before-pr-stale: 14
          days-before-close: 7
          debug-only: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }} # Dry-run when true.
          exempt-all-milestones: true # Milestones can sometimes last a month, so exempt issues attached to a milestone.
          exempt-issue-labels: blocked,do-not-close,feature-gate,security
          exempt-pr-labels: blocked,do-not-close,feature-gate,security
          # No actual changes get made in debug-only mode, so we can raise the operations ceiling.
          operations-per-run: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' && 1000 || 900}}
          stale-issue-label: stale
          stale-issue-message: "" # Leave no comment when marking as stale
          stale-pr-label: stale
          stale-pr-message: "" # Leave no comment when marking as stale