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Stale check for issues or PRs with "needs SME" label #1210

Stale check for issues or PRs with "needs SME" label

Stale check for issues or PRs with "needs SME" label #1210

name: Stale check for issues or PRs with "needs SME" label
# **What it does**: Runs only in the OS repository to provide stale checks on issues/PRs that need SME(subject matter expert) review.
# **Why we have it**: In the open repo, we want we want to check on issues/PRs that are waiting on SME review.
# **Who does it impact**: Anyone working in the open repo.
on:
schedule:
- cron: '20 16 * * 3' # Run each Wedneday at 16:20 UTC / 8:20 PST
permissions:
contents: read
issues: write
pull-requests: write
jobs:
stale_needs-sme:
if: ${{ github.repository == 'github/docs' }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/stale@28ca1036281a5e5922ead5184a1bbf96e5fc984e # v9.0.0
with:
only-labels: needs SME
days-before-stale: 28 # adds stale label if no activity for 7 days - temporarily changed to 28 days as we work through the backlog
stale-issue-message: 'This is a gentle reminder for the docs team that this issue is waiting for technical review by a subject matter expert (SME).'
stale-issue-label: 'Waiting on SME review'
days-before-issue-close: -1 # never close
stale-pr-message: 'This is a gentle reminder for the docs team that this PR is waiting for technical review by a subject matter expert.'
stale-pr-label: 'Waiting on SME review'
days-before-pr-close: -1 # never close
- name: Print outputs
run: echo "Staled issues/PRs:${{ steps.stale.outputs.staled-issues-prs || '0' }}, Closed issues/PRs:${{ steps.stale.outputs.closed-issues-prs || '0' }}"
- name: Check out repo
if: ${{ failure() }}
uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # v4.2.2
- uses: ./.github/actions/slack-alert
if: ${{ failure() }}
with:
slack_channel_id: ${{ secrets.DOCS_ALERTS_SLACK_CHANNEL_ID }}
slack_token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_DOCS_BOT_TOKEN }}