GitHub action that deals with stale issues in your project.

• find, comment and label the issue if it exceeds the selected staleAfter day limit
• close the issue down after the closeAfter day limit is reached
• customize the comment posted when the issue is stale or closed
• select label to be set for stale issues

• ghToken Required, GitHub token

• staleAfter int, number of days to consider an issue to be stale, default: 30

• closeAfter int, number of days after the issue should be closed (0 days means off, must be higher than staleAfter), default: 0

• staleLabel string, a label to be set to the stale issue, default: STALE

• staleComment string, a comment placed when marking issue as stale. See a guide on how to style this message.

• closeComment string, a comment placed when closing issue. See a guide on how to style this message.

• showLogs bool. Show logs with info like total number of issues found, stale issues, closed etc. default: true

name: Issue cleanup
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 23 14 * *' # At 23:00, 14th day of each month
jobs:
  triage_issues:
    name: Issue triage
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Find old issues and mark them stale
      uses: Krizzu/[email protected]
      with:
        ghToken: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        staleAfter: 30
        closeAfter: 60
        staleLabel: "STALE 📺"
        staleComment: "This issue is %DAYS_OLD% days old, marking as stale! cc: @%AUTHOR%"
        closeComment: "Issue last updated %DAYS_OLD% days ago! Closing down!"
        showLogs: true

The comment is a template string with placeholders to use:

• %AUTHOR% - Issue creator
• %DAYS_OLD% - How long (in days) the issue was last updated

Example:

with:
  closeComment: "This issue is %DAYS_OLD% old, closing down! Notifying author: @%AUTHOR%"

To test action locally, create .env file, with content from .env.example.

Run dev script to run.