Add a feature to automatically close issues as 'stale' when it hasn't been touched for > 4 months about pure-bot

[rhuss]

@syndesisio/all Before rolling out our own solution what do you think about using https://github.com/probot/stale for marking and closing old issues as stale ? Seems reasonably easy to install and configure.

Is four month as threshhold good enough ?

[gashcrumb]

Yeah, so they won't be deleted, just closed automatically... so you're free to re-open etc.

If anything it's a good way to help keep important things from being completely forgotten.

[rhuss]

ok, let me pick that up. It will be a bit tricky, as the bot is only triggered on state changes (but not periodically which would be more appropriate for a cleanup job), but we can just from time to time check these when a webhook is triggered.

[gashcrumb]

Yeah even just a monthly thing would work...

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[paoloantinori]

I like the idea of re-using something already written. And also, since we are doing housekeeping and tracking configs, deploy steps and secrets, this might be the best moment to track and document this!

[rhuss]

ok, let me then jump on probot/stale.

I dont think we have to install anything, as its a running service.
Its just about coniguration.

Or should we install our own instance (to be 100% safe ?)

[TovaCohen]

I created some issues at the beginning of November for clarifying the text in the UI. These issues are just being addressed now, after more than 4 months of no activity. To avoid automatic deletion, do I just need to add a comment so there is evidence of activity?

[gashcrumb]

I think we're doing this via a different bot, so I don't think we need to keep this open.