Python Bytes

Watch the live stream: Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by Shortcut - Get started at shortcut.com/pythonbytes Special guest: Karen Dalton Brian #1: stale : github bot to “Close Stale Issues and PRs” Was one response to a question by Will McGugan Something like “An issue filed on an open source project, I’ve asked a followup question about the issue, and filer doesn’t respond. Is there an easy way to close the issue after a set time period of inactivity.” Just trying to get a reference to Will out of the way early in the episode. stale does this: Warns and then closes issues and PRs that have had no activity for a specified amount of time. The configuration must be on the default branch and the default values will: Add a label "Stale" on issues and pull requests after 60 days of inactivity and comment on them Close the stale issues and pull requests after 7 days of inactivity If an update/comment occur on stale issues or pull requests, the stale label will be removed and the timer will re