[BEAM-4423] Automatically clean-up stale pull requests

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P3
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: Not applicable
• Component/s: build-system
• Labels: github infra
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Scott Wegner
• Created: 29/May/18 16:38
• Updated: 16/May/20 13:23
• Resolved: 06/Jun/19 23:31

Description

See conversation on the dev@ list

We have many pull requests which have gone inactive for one reason or another. These accumulate over time and make it more difficult to track active pull requests. The idea is to have some policy and automation around cleaning up stale PR's.

For example:

• Add a comment after X weeks stating the stale PR policy and that this PR will be closed if there is no activity in X days
• If there is still no activity after X additional days, close the PR.

We should explore tools that are already built for this, such as https://github.com/probot/stale

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5532