close-stale-issues workflow (ml-tooling/lazydocs)

The close-stale-issues workflow from ml-tooling/lazydocs, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: ml-tooling/lazydocs.github/workflows/close-stale-issues.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the close-stale-issues workflow from the ml-tooling/lazydocs repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

workflow (.yml)

name: close-stale-issues

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: "30 1 * * *"

jobs:
  close-stale-issues:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@v3
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          stale-issue-message: "This issue is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 14 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 14 days"
          days-before-stale: 90
          days-before-close: 14
          stale-pr-label: stale

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: close-stale-issues
 
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: "30 1 * * *"
 
jobs:
  close-stale-issues:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - uses: actions/stale@v3
        with:
          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          stale-issue-message: "This issue is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 14 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 14 days"
          days-before-stale: 90
          days-before-close: 14
          stale-pr-label: stale

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