Improve stale PR auto-labeling and management

Enhance stale PR management by auto-labeling PRs with no activity in the last 14 days and maintaining existing stale PR handling.
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Tobias
2026-03-22 13:58:26 +01:00
committed by GitHub
parent 87bb2a34ca
commit e76681ed8e

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.github/workflows/stale_pr_close.yml generated vendored
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@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ jobs:
const now = new Date();
const owner = context.repo.owner;
const repo = context.repo.repo;
// --- When stale label is added, comment immediately ---
if (context.eventName === "pull_request_target" && context.payload.action === "labeled") {
const label = context.payload.label?.name;
@@ -37,19 +37,74 @@ jobs:
}
return;
}
// --- Scheduled run: check all stale PRs ---
// --- Scheduled run: fetch all open PRs ---
const { data: prs } = await github.rest.pulls.list({
owner,
repo,
state: "open",
per_page: 100
});
for (const pr of prs) {
const hasStale = pr.labels.some(l => l.name === "stale");
if (!hasStale) continue;
const labels = pr.labels.map(l => l.name);
const hasStale = labels.includes("stale");
const hasKeepOpen = labels.includes("keep-open");
// -------------------------------------------------------
// NEW: Auto-label PRs with no activity in the last 14 days
// -------------------------------------------------------
if (!hasStale && !hasKeepOpen) {
// Find the most recent commit date
const { data: commits } = await github.rest.pulls.listCommits({
owner,
repo,
pull_number: pr.number
});
const lastCommitDate = commits.length > 0
? new Date(commits[commits.length - 1].commit.author.date)
: new Date(pr.created_at);
// Find the most recent non-bot comment date
const { data: comments } = await github.rest.issues.listComments({
owner,
repo,
issue_number: pr.number,
per_page: 100
});
const humanComments = comments.filter(c => c.user?.type !== "Bot");
const lastCommentDate = humanComments.length > 0
? new Date(humanComments[humanComments.length - 1].created_at)
: null;
// Most recent activity across commits and comments
const lastActivityDate = lastCommentDate && lastCommentDate > lastCommitDate
? lastCommentDate
: lastCommitDate;
const daysSinceActivity = (now - lastActivityDate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
if (daysSinceActivity > 14) {
await github.rest.issues.addLabels({
owner,
repo,
issue_number: pr.number,
labels: ["stale"]
});
// The pull_request_target labeled event will fire the comment automatically.
// Skip further processing for this PR in this run.
continue;
}
// Not stale, nothing else to do for this PR.
continue;
}
// -------------------------------------------------------
// EXISTING: Manage already-stale PRs
// -------------------------------------------------------
if (!hasStale) continue; // has keep-open but not stale — skip
// Get timeline events to find when stale label was added
const { data: events } = await github.rest.issues.listEvents({
owner,
@@ -57,27 +112,27 @@ jobs:
issue_number: pr.number,
per_page: 100
});
// Find the most recent time the stale label was added
const staleLabelEvents = events
.filter(e => e.event === "labeled" && e.label?.name === "stale")
.sort((a, b) => new Date(b.created_at) - new Date(a.created_at));
if (staleLabelEvents.length === 0) continue;
const staleLabelDate = new Date(staleLabelEvents[0].created_at);
const daysSinceStale = (now - staleLabelDate) / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24);
// Check for new commits since stale label was added
const { data: commits } = await github.rest.pulls.listCommits({
owner,
repo,
pull_number: pr.number
});
const lastCommitDate = new Date(commits[commits.length - 1].commit.author.date);
const author = pr.user.login;
// If there are new commits after the stale label, remove it
if (lastCommitDate > staleLabelDate) {
await github.rest.issues.removeLabel({