Stale PR Management workflow (openwisp/django-swappable-models)

The Stale PR Management workflow from openwisp/django-swappable-models, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Stale PR Management workflow from the openwisp/django-swappable-models 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

name: Stale PR Management
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write
concurrency:
  group: bot-autoassign-stale-pr-${{ github.repository }}
  cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
  manage-stale-prs-python:
    uses: openwisp/openwisp-utils/.github/workflows/reusable-bot-autoassign.yml@master
    with:
      bot_command: stale_pr
    secrets:
      OPENWISP_BOT_APP_ID: ${{ secrets.OPENWISP_BOT_APP_ID }}
      OPENWISP_BOT_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENWISP_BOT_PRIVATE_KEY }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Stale PR Management
on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 0 * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:
permissions:
  contents: read
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write
concurrency:
  group: bot-autoassign-stale-pr-${{ github.repository }}
  cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
  manage-stale-prs-python:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    uses: openwisp/openwisp-utils/.github/workflows/reusable-bot-autoassign.yml@master
    with:
      bot_command: stale_pr
    secrets:
      OPENWISP_BOT_APP_ID: ${{ secrets.OPENWISP_BOT_APP_ID }}
      OPENWISP_BOT_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.OPENWISP_BOT_PRIVATE_KEY }}
 

What changed

• Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

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