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Close stale issues

Close stale issues #51

name: "Close stale issues"
# Controls when the action will run.
on:
# allows doing a manual trigger of the action and running it on a schedule at 10am PT everyday(converted since expression is anchored to UTC)
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
- cron: "0 17 * * *"
permissions: {}
jobs:
cleanup:
permissions:
issues: write # to label, comment and close issues (aws-actions/stale-issue-cleanup)
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
name: Stale issues
steps:
- uses: aws-actions/stale-issue-cleanup@v6
with:
# Types of issues that will be processed
issue-types: issues
# Setting messages to an empty string will cause the automation to skip
# that category
stale-issue-message: This issue is missing required information and will be closed in 7 days. To keep the issue open, leave a comment.
# this has been added as a placeholder but will likely not be used because the timeline is set as 100 years
ancient-issue-message: This issue will automatically close because it has stalled for 1 year. To keep the issue open, leave a comment.
# These labels are required
stale-issue-label: closing-soon
exempt-issue-labels: no-autoclose
response-requested-label: needs-response
closed-for-staleness-label: closed-for-staleness
# Issue timing
days-before-stale: 30
days-before-close: 7
# setting this to 100 years to avoid closing valid old issues that are yet to be triaged
days-before-ancient: 36500
# If you don't want to mark an issue as being ancient based on a
# threshold of "upvotes", you can set this here. An "upvote" is
# the total number of +1, heart, hooray, and rocket reactions
# on an issue.
minimum-upvotes-to-exempt: 5
# Leave this alone, or set to a PAT for the action to use
repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
# Testing/debugging options
loglevel: DEBUG
# Set dry-run to true to not perform label or close actions.
dry-run: false