Hello community,

Issues that have been closed and without additional activity for over a
quarter are stale. In other open source communities, such issues are
handled by locking the conversation.

*Advantage*:
- This prevents re-opening issues revolving around legacy/older versions
- Encourages users to post new issues

*Disadvantage*
- Locking of issues might seem like administrative overreach to new users
or those unaware about the reasoning behind this locking decision.

Looking around the open-source community, there's Angular JS which uses
automatic-lock-bot [1]. They explain the process [2] as to why locking is
beneficial.

*Implementation*:
Lock-threads [3] is a github action that can be easily plugged into our
repository to facilitate the auto-lock functionality. It allows us to
configure various input parameters [most relevant one being:
issue-lock-inactive-days]

I'm looking to hear from the community about what they feel regarding this
proposal.

Thanks,
Chai

[1] https://github.com/apps/angular-automatic-lock-bot
[2] https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/master/docs/GITHUB_PROCESS.md
[3] https://github.com/dessant/lock-threads

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