Mark and close stale issues workflow (parallax/jsPDF)

The Mark and close stale issues workflow from parallax/jsPDF, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: parallax/jsPDF.github/workflows/stale.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Mark and close stale issues workflow from the parallax/jsPDF 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: Mark and close stale issues

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

jobs:
  stale:

    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/stale@v10
      with:
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. It will be closed soon. Please comment/reopen if this issue is still relevant.'
        stale-issue-label: 'no-issue-activity'
        exempt-issue-labels: 'Bug,Feature Request,persistent'
        remove-stale-when-updated: true
        days-before-stale: 90
        days-before-close: 7

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Mark and close stale issues
 
on:
  schedule:
  - cron: "30 1 * * *"
 
jobs:
  stale:
    timeout-minutes: 30
 
    runs-on: latchkey-small
 
    steps:
    - uses: actions/stale@v10
      with:
        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open 90 days with no activity. It will be closed soon. Please comment/reopen if this issue is still relevant.'
        stale-issue-label: 'no-issue-activity'
        exempt-issue-labels: 'Bug,Feature Request,persistent'
        remove-stale-when-updated: true
        days-before-stale: 90
        days-before-close: 7

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