piroor / auto-mark-as-stale-issues

GitHub action to set "stale" automatically for issues not responded too long term

Auto mark issues as stale

This is an Action that labels expired issues based on the provided label, based on bdougie/close-issues-based-on-label.

Usage

This action takes four parameters via environment variables.

• LABEL (string, default = stale): The name of a label for stale issues.
• EXPIRE_DAYS (integer, default = 0): The number of days waiting to mark issues after the last comment done by the reporter.
• EXTEND_DAYS_BY_COMMENTED (integer, default = same to EXPIRE_DAYS): The number of days waiting to mark issues after last commented by someone.
• CANDIDATE_LABELS (commma separated strings): Names of labels which filter issues to be marked as stale.
• EXCEPTION_LABELS (commma separated strings): Names of labels which block marking as stale.
• GITHUB_TOKEN (string): This must be ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}`.

For example:

on:
  schedule:
  - cron: 0 5 * * 3 
name: Weekly Expired Issue Closure
jobs:
  cycle-weekly-close:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: mark "help wanted" issues as stale
      uses: piroor/auto-mark-as-stale-issues
      env:
        LABEL: stale
        EXCEPTION_LABELS: needs-triage
        CANDIDATE_LABELS: help wanted
        GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        EXPIRE_DAYS: 30
        EXTEND_DAYS_BY_COMMENTED: 7
        COMMENT: This issue has been labeled as "stale" due to no response by the reporter within 30 days (and 7 days after the last commented by someone).