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What it does

This is the Close stale issues and PRs workflow from the facebook/jest repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)
name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 * * * *'

permissions:
  issues: write # to close stale issues (actions/stale)
  pull-requests: write # to close stale PRs (actions/stale)

jobs:
  stale:
    name: 'Close month old issues and PRs'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@eb5cf3af3ac0a1aa4c9c45633dd1ae542a27a899 # v10.3.0
        with:
          start-date: '2022-01-01T00:00:00Z'
          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new issue if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          close-pr-message: 'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new PR if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          days-before-issue-stale: 30
          days-before-pr-stale: 90
          days-before-issue-close: 30
          days-before-pr-close: 30
          exempt-all-milestones: true
          exempt-issue-labels: Pinned,"Needs Triage"
          exempt-pr-labels: Pinned
          exempt-draft-pr: true
          operations-per-run: 1750
  stale-legacy:
    name: 'Close year old issues and PRs'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@eb5cf3af3ac0a1aa4c9c45633dd1ae542a27a899 # v10.3.0
        with:
          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open for 1 year with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 1 year with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new issue if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          close-pr-message: 'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new PR if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          days-before-issue-stale: 365
          days-before-pr-stale: 365
          days-before-issue-close: 30
          days-before-pr-close: 30
          exempt-all-milestones: true
          exempt-issue-labels: Pinned
          exempt-pr-labels: Pinned
          operations-per-run: 1750

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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name: 'Close stale issues and PRs'
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 * * * *'
 
permissions:
  issues: write # to close stale issues (actions/stale)
  pull-requests: write # to close stale PRs (actions/stale)
 
jobs:
  stale:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: 'Close month old issues and PRs'
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@eb5cf3af3ac0a1aa4c9c45633dd1ae542a27a899 # v10.3.0
        with:
          start-date: '2022-01-01T00:00:00Z'
          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 30 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new issue if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          close-pr-message: 'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new PR if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          days-before-issue-stale: 30
          days-before-pr-stale: 90
          days-before-issue-close: 30
          days-before-pr-close: 30
          exempt-all-milestones: true
          exempt-issue-labels: Pinned,"Needs Triage"
          exempt-pr-labels: Pinned
          exempt-draft-pr: true
          operations-per-run: 1750
  stale-legacy:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    name: 'Close year old issues and PRs'
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@eb5cf3af3ac0a1aa4c9c45633dd1ae542a27a899 # v10.3.0
        with:
          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open for 1 year with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open 1 year with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 30 days.'
          close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new issue if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          close-pr-message: 'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please open a new PR if the issue is still relevant, linking to this one.'
          days-before-issue-stale: 365
          days-before-pr-stale: 365
          days-before-issue-close: 30
          days-before-pr-close: 30
          exempt-all-milestones: true
          exempt-issue-labels: Pinned
          exempt-pr-labels: Pinned
          operations-per-run: 1750
 

What changed

This workflow runs 2 jobs per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow