I agree that stalebot is a best practice and we should use it, and 30d sounds like a good starting point.
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 7:56 AM Tomasz Urbaszek <turbas...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, we have about 582 open issues on Github. The oldest opened > in March. Do you think we should consider using stale bot as we do for > PRs? > > I don't think that issue that is open since March is "so important" to > keep it still open. This would also automate the process of verifying > the issue (the author will be notified and asked for an update). If > the issue is something that we want to keep open we should be able to > use the "pinned" label. > > Other projects use it and I don't see anything wrong with it. I would > say that 30d is a good period for keeping an issue open. > > What do you think? > > Bests, > Tomek >