Closing stale issues

[nijel]

This is followup to discussion at #8789

I think we agree about the point that we are both very different flavours of maintainers. ❤️ 😃

The bot is way better in this than we would be.

Do not underestimate your abilities as a maintainer.

There are quite some issues where people come, we ask for clarification, and they never come back. And there is no point in keeping such issues open.

Correct. And to "monitor" the time span waiting for users response we do have tags like "feedback" and "close until cool-of period" in my projects. Works very well. But we also do have issues open for more than 10 years for good reason.

Originally posted by @buhtz in #8789 (comment)

[nijel]

We don't use labels, but it works mostly like that.

Upon triage, we label issues that are clear bugs/feature requests/questions and ask questions to clarify on others.

The bot then operates on unlabeled issues (and question ones) where there was no response for 14 days. It comments then and if no follow up comes in the next 5 days, it closes the issue.

The intention is to close issues where there is no clear path forward unless somebody provides additional feedback.

The implementation is here: https://github.com/WeblateOrg/meta/blob/main/.github/workflows/stale.yml