Tune stale issue and PR automation to reduce aggressive closures#1311
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Pull request overview
This PR tunes GitHub stale automation to make issue and PR closures less aggressive and removes a temporary debug job from stale-label extension handling.
Changes:
- Expands stale/close windows for targeted stale policies.
- Exempts assigned items, milestone items, and draft PRs where applicable.
- Removes the debug job from
/stale-extendworkflow while keeping label removal behavior.
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| File | Description |
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.github/workflows/stale-issues.yml |
Updates stale bot policies, exemptions, filters, and messaging. |
.github/workflows/remove-stale-label.yml |
Removes temporary debug output from the stale extension workflow. |
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| days-before-stale: 10 | ||
| days-before-close: 7 |
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Summary
Adjust stale automation to reduce overly aggressive stale marking and closure of issues/PRs.
Changes
/home/runner/work/Aspire/Aspire/.github/workflows/stale-issues.ymlto:any-of-issue-labelsfor Question/Resolved logic/home/runner/work/Aspire/Aspire/.github/workflows/remove-stale-label.ymlto remove the temporary debug job while preserving/stale-extendbehavior.Validation