Mark stale issues and pull requests workflow (Kristories/awesome-guidelines)

The Mark stale issues and pull requests workflow from Kristories/awesome-guidelines, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: Kristories/awesome-guidelines.github/workflows/stale.ymlLicense CC0-1.0View source

What it does

This is the Mark stale issues and pull requests workflow from the Kristories/awesome-guidelines repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its CC0-1.0 license.

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The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: Mark stale issues and pull requests

on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "59 23 * * *"

jobs:
  stale:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/stale@v1
      with:
        days-before-stale: 20
        days-before-close: 1
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        stale-issue-message: 'This issue has been hanging around a bit too long, if needed please update or comment.'
        stale-pr-message: 'This PR has been hanging around a bit too long, please update/rebase or comment as needed.'
        stale-issue-label: 'no-issue-activity'
        stale-pr-label: 'no-pr-activity'

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Mark stale issues and pull requests
 
on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "59 23 * * *"
 
jobs:
  stale:
    timeout-minutes: 30
 
    runs-on: latchkey-small
 
    steps:
    - uses: actions/stale@v1
      with:
        days-before-stale: 20
        days-before-close: 1
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        stale-issue-message: 'This issue has been hanging around a bit too long, if needed please update or comment.'
        stale-pr-message: 'This PR has been hanging around a bit too long, please update/rebase or comment as needed.'
        stale-issue-label: 'no-issue-activity'
        stale-pr-label: 'no-pr-activity'

What changed

Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

This workflow runs 1 job per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/stale