pr-stale.md

Stale Issues and PRs Workflow

This workflow automatically marks and closes stale issues and pull requests after periods of inactivity. .github/workflows/stale_pr.yml

Overview

Automatically:

• Marks issues as stale after 30 days of inactivity
• Marks PRs as stale after 30 days of inactivity
• Closes stale issues after 10 more days
• Closes stale PRs after 10 more days
• Deletes branches of closed PRs
• Exempts items with specific labels or milestones

Features

• Configurable time periods for staleness and closure
• Customizable stale and close messages
• Exclusion for items with specific labels (bug, wip, on-hold, no-stale)
• Exclusion for all items with milestones
• Automatic branch cleanup for closed PRs

Usage

This workflow is designed to be called from other workflows using GitHub's workflow_call trigger.

Example Implementation

name: 'Mark or close stale issues and PRs'

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 0 * * 5'  # Runs every Friday midnight
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:
    branches:
      - 'main'

jobs:
  stale-pr:
    uses: clouddrove/github-shared-workflows/.github/workflows/stale_pr.yml@master
    with:
      days-before-issue-stale: 30  # Days until issue marked stale
      days-before-pr-stale: 30     # Days until PR marked stale
      days-before-issue-close: 10  # Days after stale until issue closed
      days-before-pr-close: 10     # Days after stale until PR closed