I'm not a fan of these bots for issues. Yes, we have a lot of open issues, but I find it far more demotivating to stumble across an issue on a project only to find it closed due to inactivity -- even if it is still a problem.
-ash On Sep 10 2020, at 1:22 pm, Ry Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> > 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 >> >
