That's true, we do use Actions today. I wonder if Apache Infra allows Actions to close PRs vs. just updating commit statuses. I only ask because I remember permissions were an issue in the past when discussing tooling like this.
In any case, I'd be happy to submit a PR adding this in if there are no concerns. We can hash out the details on the PR. On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 11:08 AM Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think we can add Actions, right? they're used for the newer tests in > Github? > I'm OK closing PRs inactive for a 'long time', where that's maybe 6-12 > months or something. It's standard practice and doesn't mean it can't be > reopened. > Often the related JIRA should be closed as well but we have done that > separately with bulk-close in the past. > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 3:24 PM Nicholas Chammas < > nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> It’s that topic again. 😄 >> >> We have almost 500 open PRs. A good chunk of them are more than a year >> old. The oldest open PR dates to summer 2015. >> >> >> https://github.com/apache/spark/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc >> >> GitHub has an Action for closing stale PRs. >> >> https://github.com/marketplace/actions/close-stale-issues >> >> What do folks think about deploying it? Does Apache Infra give us the >> ability to even deploy a tool like this? >> >> Nick >> >
