Using Stale bot to clean up issues

[GUNNAR MILLS]

On 2/7/2019 5:13 PM, Ed Tanous wrote:
> Have we looked at what a majority of our issues are getting stale from?


Just in  openbmc/openbmc there is 467 issues. 281 are older than a year 
and 78 are older than 2 years.
Some of them are a lack of feedback from the submitter. A pretty large 
percentage I don’t know if they are still an issue.

I feel this many issues is unmanageable. From the stale bot README:
"In the experience of the maintainers of this app—and the hundreds of 
other projects and organizations that use it—focusing on issues that are 
actively affecting humans is an effective method for prioritizing work.

To some, a robot trying to close stale issues may seem inhospitable or 
offensive to contributors. But the alternative is to disrespect them by 
setting false expectations and implicitly ignoring their work. This app 
makes it explicit: if work is not progressing, then it's stale. A 
comment is all it takes to keep the conversation alive."

I feel strongly we should do something like this to manage our issues.

- Gunnar


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