Github Action for Closing Stale PRs

[Tejas2805]

Few PRs are left open for a long time without any follow-up activity 
from the author of the PRs. This prevents other developers from 
taking up the issue and solving it. Therefore, the senior developers 
need to find such PRs manually and close them.

Let's automate the process of closing inactive PRs using GitHub Actions.

[jamessspanggg]

LGTM, we would have to create a GITHUB_TOKEN secret so that u can use this workflow right

[jamessspanggg]

@eugenepeh might need you to add the access token as a secret

[Tejas2805]

LGTM, we would have to create a GITHUB_TOKEN secret so that u can use this workflow right

I think that it will be required.

[fzdy1914]

LGTM

[eugenepeh]

From the GitHub Action Docs

GitHub automatically creates a GITHUB_TOKEN secret to use in your workflow. 
You can use the GITHUB_TOKEN to authenticate in a workflow run.

Hmm, doesn't seems like its needed to create this token.
Could you test it out in another repository?

[jamessspanggg]

@Tejas2805 have u tried it in your repo?

[Tejas2805]

@Tejas2805 have u tried it in your repo?

Yup have. This is the link

[jamessspanggg]

Yup have. This is the link

Ok, you did not need to setup the GITHUB_TOKEN right?

[Tejas2805]

Ok, you did not need to setup the GITHUB_TOKEN right?

Oh, thought you were asking if it works. Yup, don't need to set GITHUB_TOKEN for actions related to PR, Issues, and more. Just checked documentation too.

[Tejas2805]

@fzdy1914 If all okay, can merge this?

[eugenepeh]

@Tejas2805 it seems to be failing

[fzdy1914]

Yep, seems to be failing.

[jamessspanggg]

The PR has been reverted to prevent the failures and spam emails. The failure has the following log, @Tejas2805 can you investigate on it:

[Tejas2805]

@jamessspanggg @fzdy1914 I don't have access but can you guys check if this is enabled?

If this is enabled, then need to switch to - Enable local and third-party Actions for this repository.

[fzdy1914]

@Tejas2805 So actions/stale@v3.0.7 this is a third party action?

[fzdy1914]

@Tejas2805

Is this enough?

[Tejas2805]

@Tejas2805 So actions/stale@v3.0.7 this is a third party action?

Actually when they say local they mean - actions for which the code is written within the repository or organization itself.

[Tejas2805]

@Tejas2805
Is this enough?

Should be okay.

[Tejas2805]

Do we want the Actions to work on all PRs (current implementation) or PRs to the master branch only?

[fzdy1914]

Can we exempt for draft PRs like #1096?

[Tejas2805]

Can we exempt for draft PRs like #1096?

We can exempt them by adding a label to the PR. And exempt PRs with those labels from being closed. Does the label - s.DoNotMerge - work?