Stalebot

GitHub Action that labels open issues as stale when:

• the most recent non-maintainer activity is older than a configurable number of days
• there is at least one maintainer comment on the issue
• the last comment was from a maintainer (OWNER, COLLABORATOR, or MEMBER)

It also removes the stale label when an issue no longer qualifies (for example, after new activity or when the latest comment is not from a maintainer). It also removes the stale label when an issue is closed.

Stale marking and regular stale cleanup are done by scanning open issues (up to 100 recently updated issues). Event-driven stale cleanup is done on issue close and on new non-maintainer comments in open issues.

Issues are skipped when:

• they are pull requests
• they already have the stale label
• they contain any label listed in ignore

name: Label Unanswered Maintainer Issues

on:
  issues:
    types: [closed]
  issue_comment:
    types: [created]
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 3 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  stale:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      issues: write
    steps:
      - name: Run stalebot
        uses: retorquere/stalebot@v1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          days-inactive: '14'
          stale: 'stale'
          ignore: 'wip,blocked,in-progress'

• This action currently inspects up to 100 most recently updated open issues per run.
• Make sure the token has permission to read and write issues.
• The test pipeline now fails if dist/index.js contains unresolved module markers (for example webpackMissingModule).

This repository has a postversion hook. Running npm version <type> will:

• typecheck TypeScript source and bundle src/index.ts with ncc into dist/index.js, then stage dist
• bump package.json version and create the version tag (for example v1.5.0)
• move the major action tag (for example v1) to the same commit
• push release tags (git push origin --follow-tags)
• force-update and push the moving major tag (for example git push origin --force v1)

This keeps retorquere/stalebot@v1 pointing at the latest 1.x release.