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fix(ci): remove ignore-pr-updates that marks active PRs as stale #804

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5 changes: 0 additions & 5 deletions .github/workflows/stale.yml
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Expand Up @@ -27,11 +27,6 @@ jobs:
days-before-pr-close: 16
stale-pr-label: 'stale'

# Use creation/update of stale label to track staleness instead of
# updated_at, which GitHub silently bumps for invisible events like
# merge conflict recalculation when main changes.
ignore-pr-updates: true

stale-pr-message: >
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P2 Badge Don't let bot conflict updates reset the stale timer

Removing ignore-pr-updates puts actions/stale back on GitHub's updated_at clock for both days-before-pr-stale and days-before-pr-close (per the action README), so non-human PR updates now count as activity again. In this repo, .github/mergify.yml:57-86 automatically adds/removes needs-rebase and posts a comment when a PR's conflict status changes, which can happen solely because main moved. Those bot label/comment updates will now restart the 14/16-day timers, so abandoned PRs with conflict churn can stay open indefinitely even when the author has been inactive.

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This pull request has been automatically marked as stale because it
has not had any activity within 14 days. It will be automatically
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