Add stale-PR workflow (close PRs after 6 months of inactivity)#627
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Marks a PR stale after 180 days without activity, warns, and closes it 14 days later if still no response, with a message inviting the author to re-open. Issues are untouched; a 'keep' label exempts a PR; any comment or push clears the stale mark. Uses the official actions/stale, oldest-first with an ops cap so the existing backlog is closed gradually, not all at once.
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Adds
.github/workflows/stale.ymlusing the officialactions/stale.Behaviour
stale+ a heads-up comment.keep/pinned/security/wip/blockedlabel exempts it; drafts are exempt.operations-per-run: 60so the current backlog of old PRs is worked through gradually over several days, not closed all at once.Before it goes live, worth a dry run: after merge, trigger it via Run workflow (
workflow_dispatch). To preview without changing anything, temporarily adddebug-only: trueto the step and run once — it logs what it would mark/close.Tuning knobs if you want a different cadence:
days-before-pr-stale/days-before-pr-close(set close to0for a hard close at 6 months with no grace period).