Stalebot

Stalebot is a GitHub App that will auto-close issues if there has been no activity for sixty days.

We originally added this bot at the request of the tech writing team because authors were opening issues to track posts but then they wouldn't finish the posts and the writers were frustrated having to ping folks to remind them. Since then we've come up with a much better system for tracking written content through the content proposal form. But the bot has stuck around because it's useful to close stale issues if no one intends to work on them.

Configuration

The configuration for the bot is in the stale.yml file. If an issue has any of the following labels it will not be marked as stale, ever.

• pinned
• accepted
• Epic
• bug

We receive a lot of feature requests that we don't have the bandwidth to work on. When we do decide to accept a feature request, we add the accepted label to it, which ensures it won't be closed and gives us time to allocate someone to work on it.